Here are quarterly tariff receipts over the past few years: Tariffs normally run about $40 billion per quarter. In the latest quarter, thanks to Trump’s tariffs, that was $35 billion higher. This amounts to $140 billion per year. All of this is paid by US companies that import goods and passed along to consumers as […]
This analysis is so incomplete, that it can be called a non-analysis. Those of us on the left need to do a better job at being more thoughtful than just anti-Trump.