Tariffs and duties should be to raise revenue, period. The lose cost of imports helps keep me in business. I don’t want to become unemployed because knuckleheads think that subsidizing overpaid union thugs is patriotic.
The longer we keep sending our jobs overseas, the less “low cost” all those imports will be.
Gradually they will increase in cost, and all those “low-cost” manual labor workers will become competent, leading edge technological experts with all of what were once America’s best jobs. Sapping America not only of our jobs, and our abilities, but all of what remains of our money. And our technology.
Leaving once-great manufacturing powerhouse America, a backward, jobless, broke and broken shadow of our once-magnificent nation.
Then who will be the knucklehead?
Nicely put.