Do protectionist policies improve the quality of life for the nations that practice it ?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[RDANGELO]

1. What is a protectionist country? Who is one?

If China is running a large trade deficit with us, and you want to reduce it, does that make you protectionist.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Us, if Trump has his way.

[former9thward]

7. We run a large trade deficit with China.

375 billion last year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/us/politics/us-china-trade-deficit.html

Asian countries have always had high tariffs to make sure their jobs stay there. Try and sell a U.S. made car in Japan and see how far you get.

[Iahotdog]

3. Don't they call them 3rd world countries?

[Demsrule86]

4. Those countries that protect good paying jobs improve the quality of life.

There are nice things like single payer and disability for all. Like Germany and France.

[ProudLib72]

5. Moose and Squirrel do not know value of good car, Lada made from

Soviet pig iron!

[petronius]

6. I suspect it depends on where the nation is starting from, which industries are

protected and for how long, and the 'collegiality' with which the protection is implemented, vis a vis other nations.

But I really really doubt that it would ever make sense for a country like ours to be too protective of extractive or raw material industries, given all of our other options for economic growth...

[zipplewrath]

8. Depends

It can be done effectively. Doesn't mean it always is.