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In reply to the discussion: Tariffs were very strong American worker wage protection, HENCE corporations hate tariffs. [View all]brentspeak
(18,290 posts)And today, corporations are thriving under low tariffs, very much at the expense of the working class.
"FDR believed in the value of trade."
Meaningless statement. Who doesn't believe in the value of trade? Of course FDR believed in the value of trade. What FDR did not believe in was lopsided "trade" which would harm the working person, a situation we have today.
You keep waltzing around the central issue regarding today's "trade" as pursued for the past several decades by the US government: low tariffs on cheap imports, flooding the US marketplace with products that have displaced US manufacturers, while the biggest US-owned corporations have simply offshored their manufacturing facilities overseas, employing foreign workers in place of American workers, or otherwise forcing down the wages of those remaining American workers.
That is not "trade", that is not what FDR wanted. And that closes the book on your attempts to propagandize Business Roundtable 1% talking points on DU while hiding behind the avatar of an American president who would have rejected them summarily.