Tariffs are massively simpler though and less prone to corruption. The latter is I think the reason we hear so much screeching about them. Right now our indust

Tariffs are massively simpler though and less prone to corruption. The latter is I think the reason we hear so much screeching about them. Right now our industries are competing with slave labor and lax environmental controls. If we don’t want either of those things here, we can’t allow groups who do those things to sell into our market freely. The idea that we tax our people and hand the money to our companies so they can compete with polluting slave labor is incredibly more complicated than just putting up barriers to entering our market. Not to mention the fact that the pollution in China et al affects us here also. In my opinion we should just not trade with countries who don’t have labor and environmental standards at parity with ours. Tariffs are the next best thing.