(April 3, 2025 at 5:53 pm)Mr Greene Wrote:(April 3, 2025 at 4:23 pm)Angrboda Wrote: If you recreate American industry successfully under the protection of tariffs, it will simply succumb to the pressures which eventually killed it once you remove the tariffs. And you can't keep tariffs up perpetually, as there is a cost to them which is even worse than the cost from American industry incrementally failing, and not recovering.
Bear in mind that EU, (formerly EEC) has been charging tariffs since at least the '70s. Kind of interesting to watch Brussels shout about how much harm tariffs do while carefully not mentioning that they've been doing it since before most of them were born...
We've had tariffs as long as we've been a country. They have a legitimate place in trade policy if targeted and used sparingly. The EU hasn't been particularly screwing us over, and since tariffs are taxes on their own people, levying a bunch on our end indiscriminately smacks of getting even with the people who drilled a hole in the boat by drilling a bigger one on our end of it.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
