>It's like the other irony that we use tariffs to 'protect' domestic industry and embargoes to 'punish' foreign industry, yet they are merely different words fo

>It's like the other irony that we use tariffs to 'protect' domestic industry and embargoes to 'punish' foreign industry, yet they are merely different words for the same thing. And the tragedy is that the majority of voters don't understand this, when it would only take a few hours of econ 101 to teach.