re: #233 Shiplord Kirel

I agree in letting foreign countries compete with us on wages and benefits, that is our motivation to become more productive. But we are cutting our own throats when we allow them to compete with us on lower safety and environmental protection costs. That is where I say free trade be damned, we need a tariff, to offset that cost differential.

Which would provide impetus for those nations to clean up their acts: once they are up to US standards, we would drop the tariff requirement.