| Re: The New Mercantilists?
We currently pay an income tax in this country because globalists zealots 100 years ago thought that tariffs on foreign goods should be replaced by taxes on Americans' incomes as the chief source for government funding.
The idea was that free-trade would usher in the era of no borders and the universal brotherhood of the free-exchange of goods & services.
It's ironic that 100 years later there would be talk about "protectionism" "mercantilism" and the reversing of "free trade" due to security reasons.
I guess some people realize that our ridiculous fear of being tagged "protectionists" has led to the day where we need to appeal to an actual protectionist nation to sell us steel in the case that we may need to build a tank for our own defense.
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