If cheap foreign goods are bad and a gov need tarrifs to prevent the foreign cheapness, then free foreign stuff would be even worse

It sounds absurd that free stuff would be a problem

Tariffs make a population work harder domestically for what they can acquire for less work abroad

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I agree, more like communism.

2 corp taxes. Lower for domestically produced goods? Another option?

yes anything to make production cheaper rather than more expensive for buyers of the goods. but that implies that you can make the stuff in the first place

Which then requires capital investment in a 4 year cycle of insane political volatility to build up manufacturing capacity. Quite the quandary for builders

hands off and let markets thrive

What a shocking concept

US trade deficit is direct consequence of global debt based monetary system based on US money. It is quite funny Trump talks both about how he wants stuff to be made in US and also threatening countries not to go of USD standard ..