What good is preserving American job is no one is buying our products overseas because we've added a 45% tax on top of whatever it already costs to buy it?
NO one? Completely ridiculous comment. One must make sense in order to be taken seriously.
What's to stop other countries from doing the same thing for the same reasons?
absoutely nothing. They are sovereign nations, as are we.
A nation's primary interests are for its own citizens, and tariffs employed over centuries are utilized for that purpose.
This starts the global economy down a dangerous path that is not good for anyone involved.
There is nothing dangerous on protecting tariffs properly applied for citizens of the country.
In the 20th Century though...tariffs have been used as a political weapon...with not so good results.
Trump wants to use them as a political weapon...and it will have the same not so good outcome.
You did not even read what I wrote previously.
The example of the 1922 tariff was specifically designed not as a political weapon, but to assist the soldiers returning from a war to have a job from working at American industries.
Did achieve its purpose? Some say yes.
Did it last too long? Probably.
Would the US do it again? Yes.
Would it do it the same way? No.
You are making blanket statements on tariffs and appear to indicate that tariffs are never right.
That is just plain wrong.