Quote:I corrected that for you.  

 

What you want is a gigantic tax that hundreds of millions of consumers will have to pay for the benefit of a few factory workers.   That's a great way to destroy the American economy.   Everyone who works at a place that sells any sort of imported product will have to try to sell them for hugely inflated prices.  TVs will be much more expensive, computers will be much more expensive, clothing will be much more expensive, everything that is imported will me much more expensive.   Your average consumer will get hammered by drastically higher prices. 

 

And then, don't you think other countries will retaliate? 

 

People seem to think, oh, all we have to do is put a gigantic tax on all imported goods, and magically, jobs will be created in the United States.   But how many jobs will be lost at the same time?   Every industry that sells imported products will see drastically higher prices, which will kill their sales.   How many jobs will be lost at the port of Jacksonville as fewer and fewer container ships dock there?  How many jobs will be lost at Wal-Mart when people can no longer afford the imported products they sell?   Do you want to pay double for the computer you're using right now?  Double for that new TV?   Double for that cell phone you use?