These tariffs will reduce manufacturing employment. They will reduce the competitiveness of manufacturing firms. They will raise prices. They will increase unemployment. They will likely cause a recession. They are an assault on the Constitution.

@GregTSargent When you’ve lost AEI……

Crazy how the Dems in Congress can't be this clear....

@NormOrnstein Definitely noteworthy opinion given that it’s coming from someone at AEI. We need more conservatives to speak up - and be true to their own long-held principles!

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@JohnJHarwood You HOPE

much luck in convincing the willfully ignorant, blindly idolatrous magat worshippers of any of this.

@donwinslow Well said!

@JohnJHarwood Parody?

the u.s. economy is in a growth-inflation-high interest rates-high prices cycle. the pandemic screwed it all up. it requires a severe correction