01-26-2018, 11:53 AM
(01-26-2018, 07:11 AM)treee Wrote: You generally want to avoid tarriffs as much as you can, imo. However, if you're a group of industrialized nations that want to protect the value of their labor, you can collectively agree to tarriff countries that do not afford their citizens a proper standard of living.
This gets to the point I was making.
I understand why tariffs are supposed to "level the field" but all I see happening is the other countries imposing tariffs on our products which will hurt our economy.
If it is done by a group then we would not have to worry as much about retaliation.
