03 Jun 2016 US steel tariffs: A case study in protectionism, economic losses on net, and ‘legal plunder’

How is legal plunder identified? See if the law [steel tariffs] takes from some persons what belongs to them [American steel-using industries and the Americans who buy their products], and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong [domestic steel producers]. See if the law benefits one group of citizens [owners of American steelmakers] at the expense of others by doing what citizens themselves cannot do without committing a crime [picking the pockets of American manufacturers and consumers].