TARIFFS OR PROTECTIONISM ADVOCATES Choose one of the WSJ readers and react to one of their quotes. From a WSJ reader #1 three years ago: Unfortunately, free trade to Red China is freedom to steal/squeeze the West's priceless technological expertise in exchange for almost limitless and very cheap labor; great for China's Great Leap Forward into the 21st Century - great for greedy Western businessmen - lousy for American workers in the manufacturing sector, much of which has steadily eroded over the years - and in the long run, lousy for American national security, as China's steady military build-up continues concurrently with the fortification of South China Sea islands continues. From a WSJ reader #2 three years ago, edited (for length?): Truck tariffs 25% since the sixties, Ethanol (subsidized farm bill corn), Cotton, Sugar, the Jones Act, etc. The list of distortionary tariffs and protections for Americans is large and now is getting larger. My wife and I own and operate an architectural aluminum business (balconies, trellises, railings, canopies etc.) and we sign our contracts up to two years in advance. Trump's 10% aluminum tariff removed half of our projected profits for the next two years. I can only imagine how it feels if I was a steel sub-contractor with the 25% tariffs. To see Wilbur Ross (Commerce Secretary under Trump) make his clownish TV appearance showing that it would cost Americans $.05 per pop can and his plea of "can't we afford that" is the most asinine ludicrous idiocy I have seen in my lifetime. This is a "taking" from American businesses multiplied countless times as it ricochets through our economy and will inevitably cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. From a WSJ reader #3 from 11-10-2016 on the Donald Trump NAFTA article. What a bunch of nonsense this article is! Don't you understand? Playing politically correct by the old rules is over. We get NO benefit from these trade deals save the owners of the companies like the family owned one in Batesville that milk us because of this NAFTA deal. Remember, the rest of the world needs the U.S. but the U.S. does not need the rest of the world. America for Americans' again