[Gunslingr3]

I am not squiriming at all.

Are you opposed to protectionist tariffs?

[hedgetrimmer]

"And finally, we've got to get back control of our money. We are not going to escape tax serfdom with a flat tax. The tax serfdom which has the government dipping into our pockets claiming the first use of dollars that we make will not be ended by the flat tax. The privacy invading IRS will not be ended by the flat tax. The only way that we're going to end those things and restore ourselves to a real condition of freedom is to abolish the income tax and return to the original Constitution of this country. To have that tax was a mistake. And when people say, well, how are you going to fund the government, you fund the government the way they said they were going to fund it, tariffs, duties, excise taxes, sales taxes, all of these things are part of the agenda of restoring our capacity to meet moral responsibility while at the same time by returning to our first principles and understanding the relationship between our freedom and our respect for God, we will restore the sense of responsibility needed so that we will feel compelled to meet those responsibilities." ALAN KEYES IN IOWA; FEBRUARY 8, 1996;

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/keyes_stump.html

[hedgetrimmer]

"Tariffs make foreigners share burden of US government. The income tax should be replaced [by] taxes on things we buy and that we pay only when we decide to buy them. By restoring tariffs and duties to their proper role we will also make foreign populations who benefit from access to the US market share the burden of supporting the governmental system that guarantees its existence." Source: HUMAN EVENTS: The National Conservative Weekly (Apr 17, 1998)

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So maybe the globalist "free traders" hate tariffs because it forces other countries to help pay for the stability and guarantees a free United States gives to the world.

Maybe they hate tariffs because it forces them to pay, instead of forcing the "rich countries" to pay the "least developed countries". Forcing us to pay them through USAID and the Millenium Challenge to name a few, gives them control over us, and they like that.