[Mr. Jeeves]

Tariffs are an attempt to make an end run around the difficult job of tacking our internal economic problems - when stem almost 100% from the anti-capitalist attitudes being systematically inculcated into our government school students. As I have stated before, the US "unemployable rate" is already north of 50%.

Every time the Left tries to take a populist whack at Big Business (like the California minimum wage law), they do absolutely nothing to hurt Big Business with its armies of lawyers and lobbyists - but they end up punching smaller businesses right in the face. When called on this, they get defensive - and their arguments always boil down to it being their good intentions that count, not the results.

Until these feckless idiots are taken out of power, 100% tariffs on every single import won't lead to any improvement in the domestic employment rate.

[GraceG]

[ Every time the Left tries to take a populist whack at Big Business (like the California minimum wage law), they do absolutely nothing to hurt Big Business with its armies of lawyers and lobbyists - but they end up punching smaller businesses right in the face. When called on this, they get defensive - and their arguments always boil down to it being their good intentions that count, not the results. ]

BINGO and NAILED IT!

In fact a lot of Big Biz that is in Bed with Big Gov, write the laws for Big Gov to “sound good” to the populist socialist agrarian MUSH on the outside, but the laws and regs are used as a TOOL to keep their competition DOWN.

Remove a lot of these “Internal Tariffs” and the big boys then have to compete against small and mid level operators, can someone say TIMBER in the OLD BIG BIZ grown forests, followed by the NEW sound of Vigorous YOUNG Tree growth?

Business should be like Forests, right now the Big Gov is keeping the old growth / dead wood intact and preventing the cleansing forest fires and keeping the tree seeds falling on the forest floor from growing... They keep doing this and sooner or later we will see a CATASTROPHIC forest fire as all the undergrowth if gonna burn.... Trees need to grow, get big fall over and spring forth new life, the cycles of nature / business is not being served by keeping a decrepit forest (Big Biz/ Big Gov. Alliance) alive....

[central_va]

Until these feckless idiots are taken out of power, 100% tariffs on every single import won't lead to any improvement in the domestic employment rate.

How about a completed embargo, a tariff taken to its logical extreme, what effect would that have?