This lefty is not 100% sure that some tariffs are not salutary
...in small doses and as a first-step means of perhaps negotiating a reduction in some of our trade partners' own protectionist barriers. And don't suggest that they don't have them, or that Trump's action is a unilateral thing, because they do and it isn't, though it admittedly violates the current equilibrium.
I understand the bipartisan support for free trade no matter what, but I've always been at least a little skeptical about its absolute goodness & necessity and its status as sacred cow.
In any event they are good populist politics in western PA, and great swathes of the Rust Belt, that's for damn sure.
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Posted: 03/14/2018 at 2:21PM