“So what’s the solution here? Free-traders don’t want to hear it. But the solution is tariffs.”
Using tariffs as a negotiating tool to get fairer trade terms like Trump is doing is fine.
But as a permanent long term policy it’s just an admission you can’t compete in terms of productivity and quality and eventually it will lead to shoddier products and lower standard of living.
Total simplistic myopic BS. We need to be self sufficient in EVERYTHING at this point. Tariffs will repatriate industry faster than anything else possible.
To the end retail purchaser the increase in cost is negligible when tariffs are in place. Perhaps pennies on the dollar at most. This is because modern automated manufacturing is not labor intensive, no matter where it is done.
Another thing you anti-patriot globalists overlook is that the tariff raises revenue. It is the best consumption tax there is far superior to the evil income tax. In addition to raising revenue a tariff promotes domestic industry at the same time. WIN - WIN.
Anti -nationalist globalists are the biggest threat to national security we face, even more so than the leftist MSM or even Democrats.