The coolest thing about non-brain functioning Neo-Cons is that when they have no sensible answer they click the smiley.
And you just keep speaking nonsense. Share some examples where tariffs have worked.
You have yet to tell us if you live off your Investments.
I will presume you do.
You are frozen in the past.
The technology of today allows non-Ricardian Free Trade to employ non-citizens, here and abroad, without sacrificing inventory.
The US has done so and produced a nation of food servers.
Tell me that's good.
I know it's good for YOU.
Tell me it's good for 98% of Americans.
Tariffs will return you and the owners and managers of MNCs to a normal income and relieve millions of people from serving coffee.
I know you shutter at the thought.
Really? Even thought that has never happened? How will it do that exactly?
I move my factory to China and can't sell as much product as I used to.
I am making less money and my wife and 30 mistresses need new implants since it's been 15 years since the last implants.
I have to have my analysts figure out at which point in sales I have to start firing more and more people (not so easy to do in China when you have a commitment with the Chinese government to maintain a certain workforce plus pay off local officials) and selling some of my estates and giving up some of my mistresses.
More than one company will reverse engineer your product, make a few changes and fill the gap left by you.
You either move back or your screwed.
Of course you now only have 5 mansions and only one mistress left (your well endowed secretary).
Yes, I worked on Wall Street.