That President Trump is making a mistake with tariffs and sanctions is obvious enough. We impose sanctions upon Iran so they cannot trade and thus punish them. We impose tariffs upon ourselves so that we cannot trade and thus we benefit.

The logic cannot possibly hold for both of these. Not trading makes us poorer – thus the sanctions work but the tariffs don’t. But that’s to continue to beat that dead horse.

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