I don't want Fair Trade, I want unfair trade. Trade where the USA gets the long end of the stick, not the short end.
And I want to buy a $10,000,000 home in Beverley Hills for $1,000,000. We can all wish for unrealistic things.
Trade is not a zero sum game. It's not a battle. This is what leftists and other statists with little understanding of economics have long thought. Opponents of capitalism think like this.
What you are asking for is to use government power to favor one group over another.
Not even close bub.
You don't like Trump, I get it.
Stop trying to misstate my position.
So do you support Trump's tariff position or not?
If you are, you are supporting mercantilism and government intervention in the economy to favor specific groups over others, no different than other statists, and completely contrary to libertarianism.
That you don't understand this basic truism of economics isn't my problem.
I don't support a 45% tariff on China or a 35% tariff on Mexico, but I do believe that the threat of a ridiculously high tariff is a great negotiating tactic. You don't go into a negotiation with your best offer unless you want a lousy deal. Watching our most successful corporation leave the US and take their manufacturing operations to Mexico, China, and other countries is the result of lousy trade deals, and overzealous taxation. We have lost our manufacturing base and tens of millions of jobs as a result.
Trump is the only candidate that is tackling the issue head on. I don't have to agree with everything he says to like him over the rest of the candidates. I don't expect any candidate to be "exactly" like me.