And if you take out the loans that Mitt Romney has made to his own campaign - he's a millionaire, he can do this - if you take out those loans, Romney's cash on hand would be only three and a quarter million, which puts him down near McCain territory without his own money to helphim.
We might find that Steve Jobs banishment from Apple when he was 30, and seeing Gil Amelio and others almost kill his baby was the seminal experience that helped him spend so much time planning how to help his company to succeed withouthim as the leader.
Mr. Santorum's next challenge is to distinguish himself as a conservative alternative to Mr. Romney without turning off centrist Republicans or the independent swing voters who would helphim become a viable general-election candidate in a match-up with President Barack Obama.
If the payback is not large enough to justify the cost of the loan, although a tariff will certainly help the business owner get his trade secret without any cost to him, the cost of the tariff is diversified across all of society.