Yeah... Other than protecting the country and the workers in that country they're useless Hahaha! Clearly the short term stock price of international corporations is all we should care about. How dare those awful conservatives put people before profits! Like slave labor, lack of environmental regulation, workplace safety, government support of industries. All those pesky things "liberals" claim to care about.
I'm pretty damn sure protectionism was one of the major contributing factors that started WW1 and Great Depression.
I see you're having trouble separating liberals from wacky right wingies apart - especially the nutjob at the top of the pyramid. tRump cares only about money, nooothing about anything else. Cutting gubmint haha, cutting his taxes absofacknlootly. Tariffs hurt even the ones whose jobs are for the most "protected" short term. Eventually all systems rebalance. meanwhile they pay higher prices for stuff they don't make. Dotard/Dotard II(Elon) are fixing a rough riding and braking car by changing the tires, struts/shocks/springs, power steering rack and brakes when all they needed to do was check the air pressure and brake fluid level.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/...-as-12k-to-new-cars-and-trucks-173722168.html Report: Trump’s tariffs could add as much as $12K to new cars and trucks
This one is even more serious if you ask me:- https://www.yahoo.com/news/canadian-premier-says-cut-off-225606450.html Canadian premier says he will cut off electricity exports to US ‘with a smile on my face’
Are you saying tariffs and subsidies are beneficial? They are known as dead weight losses for a reason. Yes, I agree that slave labor, lack of environmental regs (all regs), work place safety give countries (companies) an advantage. Not sure what your point is.
Since 2016, the stock market is the metric by which we judge presidents. tariffs don’t solve those pesky things liberals care about. Conservatives don’t either which is why they try to eliminate those things in their own countries in order to create profits (at the expense of people).