💬 Opinion 1d ago · Robert Kuttner

Trump’s Tariff Sham

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Trump’s Tariff Sham
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With the Iran war a failure on all fronts, Trump predictably has tried to change the subject yet again. His abrupt imposition of tariffs on some 60 nations generated the desired headlines. But every aspect of Trump’s new tariffs is a fraud, from the professed justification to the supposed economic benefit.



The Supreme Court held last February that Trump’s earlier round of tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act was an illicit use of executive power. There was no eco

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