[SSS Two]

Yes. Protectionism always causes an economic deadweight loss.

[central_va]

I can name 10 countries that became economic power houses behind a wall of protectionism.

[marktwain]

Yes. Protectionism always causes an economic deadweight loss.

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If that is so, why did the U.S. prosper so much with protectionist policies from 1816 to 1945.

Britain had free trade and grew at half the pace of the United States.