Yes, you are paying for the tariffs

Published May 16, 2019 1:17pm ET



“[There] is no reason for the U.S. consumers to pay the tariffs,” President Trump tweeted Monday, referring to the 25% tax he has levied against Chinese imports. He then tried to claim that Americans were paying only one-fifth of the tariff’s cost — which meant he was contradicting himself.

That or a misspelling probably explains why he then deleted the tweet.

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