[entropy12]

What solution are the anti-tariff crowd offering to reduce our obscene trade deficits?

Yeah yeah we have already tried negotiating GENTLY for decades. It has not worked. A robber never goes away by negotiations, he has to be forced out.

[NorthMountain]

1) Drastic reductions in government regulation of businesses. The President is already doing that, so I have no complaints on that score.

2) Abolish the income tax. If we're going to increase one tax (import tariffs) we should reduce other taxes the same amount.

3) Drastic reductions in the size, scope, power, and COST of government.

You tariffholics want to make foreign manufacturing less attractive.

I want to make domestic manufacturing more attractive.

Follow my suggestions 1-3 above, and you can have all the tariffs you want.