[Freedom4US]

As Bruce Bartlett says in an article listed in my reading assignments, "No nation has ever gotten rich by forcing its citizens to pay more for domestic goods and services that could have been procured more cheaply abroad."

Nonsense, how does Bruce think the United States nurtured fledgling industries for 150 years? That's right - tariffs. It's OK to have differing opinions, but not OK to be wrong in the facts used to support those opinions.

[Poohbah]

Nonsense, how does Bruce think the United States nurtured fledgling industries for 150 years? That's right - tariffs.

Which, of course, led to the US Navy having to pay through the nose to buy ships from foreign shipyards in 1898, because we weren't building modern warships--our "protected" steel and shipbuilding industries were rather backward compared to everyone else's, especially free-trading Britain.