Trump wants to cut middle-class taxes. The easiest solution? Repeal tariffs

Published October 29, 2018 8:06pm ET



As the Trump administration explores ways to deliver a new middle-class tax cut, the most obvious answer is to repeal the administration’s newly imposed tariffs. Tariffs tax middle-class American families and threaten to undermine the economic growth generated from the new tax reform law.

Not even a month after signing the nation’s first major tax reform bill in more than 31 years, the Trump administration began imposing tariffs on American imports. So far this year, the administration has imposed tariffs on steel, aluminum, washing machines, and thousands of products that American businesses and consumers buy from China.

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