


Commentary: President Donald Trump’s tariffs will cost us
As President Donald Trump laid out his case for sweeping new tariffs, it sounded reasonable. He was only imposing on other countries the burden they impose on us. Those tariffs, he said, would boost our national revenue and decrease our deficit. He recalled a wealthy America 150 years ago funded entirely by tariffs instead of a pesky income tax, and he longed to make the rest of the world fund ...