redstate.com By Ward Clark
They said tariffs would choke off international trade. They said tariffs would crush the American taxpayers with increased costs and higher prices. They said that tariffs would make the federal debt skyrocket. They said that tariffs would ultimately be self-defeating.
They were wrong. At least, so far.
Look, I was never a fan of tariffs. I was and am (mostly) a Randian free-trader. But President Trump ran on the notion of hammering tariffs on nations with whom we had made bad trade deals, deals in which America was getting taken to the cleaners. It’s working. It’s all working. Other nations are lining up to make new deals; several have already been made, and in the meantime, that tariff cash is flowing into American coffers – $31.3 billion in September….
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