[Hoot Gibson]

As somebody who has worked on site at one of Nucor's large, modern steel mills, I can tell you that modern American steel mills can and do compete with any in the world. Trump's tariff on imported steel is a gift to a big, corrupt labor union - the kind of gift that usually comes from liberal Democrats who do not understand or care about how our economy works.

No government has ever created a more robust economy by raising taxes on consumers and a tariff is a tax on consumption. It has never worked in the past and it will not work for Trump either.

This country developed the largest economy in the history of the world through free trade. I don't understand how any American cannot grasp that fact. High tariffs are just as much an attempt to interfere with free trade as government backed monopolies are. Both are drags on this country's economy.