[webstersII]

The Founding Fathers believed tarriffs were a valid way to give an appropriate edge to domestic busineses.

[driftless2]

Obviously, there's many opinions about the value of tariffs. From what I've read free traders are definitely against them.

There's the specter of the Smoot-Hawley tariff which a number of historians feel exacerbated The Great Depression. I haven't read or heard any big name conservative ideologues or pols who are for them. Maybe Ron Paul.