Trump’s tariffs and tax giveaways are terrible ideas

Large parts of former President Donald Trump’s economic agenda are outlandishly unwise.

In separate appearances this week before the Detroit Economic Club and the Economic Club of Chicago, Trump laid out a plethora of bad ideas, some of them familiar and a few of them brand new. Most of them would be counterproductive for the economy as a whole, and none of them are defensible conceptually or ethically at the micro level.