[central_va]

The biggest beneficiaries of this tariff will be U.S. lumber producers in Washington and Oregon ... two states which did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016.

I see keeping American's working as an apolitical issue. Only a really f upped individual like yourself would use this issue as political football. Do you think timber people are Democrats?

[Alberta's Child]

I've said for years that the process of negotiating or dismantling trade deals would always be a political challenge here in the U.S. because the political leadership of this country would inevitably find themselves in a position where some industries benefitted from trade deals and others suffered from them.

It's easy to be "apolitical" when you're sitting at a desk posting on a website like this, but politics is what drives everything in Washington.

Would you put U.S. farmers out of work for the benefit of loggers, as a hypothetical example?