Reply #30: Tariffs were needed 40 years ago

[Warpy]

when our industry was being raided. They're desperately needed now, although it will be a hard sell now that we no longer make much of anything here, becuse it will mean inflation while corporations sit with their thumbs up their asses wondering what reopening plants in this country will do to their bottom line.

The time for stiff tariffs was while we still HAD a mnaufacturing base.

You can bet your ass that the far eastern countries that raided our industries assisted by corporate greed have tariffs to make sure nobody steals it from THEM.

The idiotic dogma of free trade without fair trade and of forcing the US worker to try to compete in a dollar wage with some guy being paid in rupees or yuan has run its course. Don't expect the captains of industry or the old farts in Congress to notice, though.

What truly frightens me is that we no longer have enough industry to be on the winning side in the next war.