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Originally Posted by reckless
You keep mentioning this silly example of W. imposing steel tariffs ... yet he recinded them and the trade deficit still grew larger, and more blue collar union guys still lost their jobs .... how come? The tariff couldn't have done all that since Bush rescinded them as you tell us.
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Bush's tariffs caused the economic problems that killed 200K jobs. The tariffs and the job loss set other economic forces in motion that remained when the tariffs were gone. Like manufacturing jobs moved overseas. You don't get those jobs back by rescinding the tariffs, they are gone and the consequences remain. If you light a candle and it burns down, you don't get the candle back by blowing out the flame.