Maybe I should start a separate thread. I really want someone to educate me. If not free trade, what then?
Are you talking government controlled excise taxes on imports? What is the system you seek?
We punish the makers and give it to the takers and wonder why the makers flee our shores.
Tariffs are fine by me...especially when we run a 500-700 billion dollar trade deficit. We should have imposed smart targeted tarriff years ago and saved American industry. If we had done this we would not have so many unemployed here today
Me— I rather have an American working and making things for me than a Chinese guy