[Willie Green]

It's the steel tariffs writ large, only more successful because ...

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Would you care to try again... in English perhaps?

[gcruse]

Conservatives expect a business-friendly domestic economic environment that generates employment opportunities.
The Bush Administration's priorities don't address that expectation.

By erecting steel tariffs, Bushhurt domestic industry, driving up the price of steel, creating no new jobs in a rust belt unable to increase output sufficiently, and having no effect on the minimills which were eating big steel's lunch.  After all that, the rustbelt states went Democrat in 2002, and the tariffs were called off.

By listening to anti-free traders, Bush would succeed in driving up costs domestically, harming the economy, going loggerheads at the WTO, and triggering a worldwide trade war.  All to keep Joe Sixpack from having to learn a new trade.

Like the steel tariffs, protectionism hurts more than it helps.