Words cannot describe how simp brained and stupid that sounds, cRusty.
were we not the richest country in the world with extremely low unemployment and a booming economy? Do you have complex data that sounds intelligent and disputes that?
That has nothing to do with how countries treat us on the trading front. It's absolutely comical to watch #blueanongE running around screaming about the free market and then to watch the same turn around and justify the tariffs and VATS.
The US had no VATS. When countries levee
both tariffs against imports
and VATs on imports. It is irrelevant if they level the same VATS against domestically produced same products, because the imported product in nearly every case will have the embedded cost of the tariff
and the VAT covered in its retail price/and or final buy/contracted price at the market level. All K-State educated (well most anyway) can figure out the rest.