[Trumpinator]

And who do you think ultimately pays teriffs, etc? You think the manufacturers and importers just take that out of the profits out of concern for the consumer ? Yea... that'll work.

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Worked for the founding fathers. The costs of so called free trade has hit your bank account as well. All those social services that arise because people don't have decent jobs anymore has a cost, too.

[FunkyZero]

I'm not a proponent of "free trade" and I've never tried to sell it. I wish we had the advantage and could tell the market to do whatever we want. My point is, we don't. And we can't do a damn thing about it other than make sure the imports are taxed at the same rate as exports. The best outcome (for the consumer) is no tariffs or taxes at all.

The ONLY thing we can do is make manufacturing on US soil more attractive than doing it abroad.