President Trump might talk the Republican line on tax cuts, but when it comes to the taxes known as tariffs, he seems all to happy to play Taxer in Chief.

The tariffs are not some special breed of tax that doesn’t cost U.S. businesses money. Indeed, as new data from the group Tariffs Hurt the Heartland shows, in November 2018 businesses paid $2.7 billion in tariffs.

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