Tariffs are Anti-Liberty Market Manipulators
Company A is in Country A they product the widget that goes in a wadget. Company A's widget costs them $.30 cents to manufacture and they sell it for $1.00. This gives them a profit of $.70. This might on first inspection be considered a large gross margin, but that seventy cents is further diminished by marketing, by transportation, by the shared costs of labor not directly involved in the widget's production. Let us then make a leap of faith without going into the construction of every facet of labor and costs to assume that after everything is taken into account the net profit of each widget is $.10. Company B in Country B produces the same widget that goes into the same wadget. Their manufacturing process is exceptionally more complex and they have a cheaper labor force. Company B can do this because the actual cost of the widget is spread out across the Country by the invasive redistribution of cost called taxation. Also, the number of people with incomes is 10x mo...