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Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Federal spending is up. So there is a pretty big focus on generating new revenue to pay for it.

Most analysis so far shows that tariffs are being paid primarily by U.S. consumers and U.S. businesses. The foreign share (in the form of price cuts) is pretty low.

One of the impressive things about Trump is that he managed to convince a nontrivial percentage of conservatives to cheer for higher spending and new taxes to pay for it.

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Kayne 5mo ago

Last time an American president tried to "solve" a trade deficit with tarrifs what followed was remembered as the "great depression"

Remember that

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