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I have explained in these reports how that tariffs are an appropriate response only when used to correct some unfair trade infringement or for national security objectives. At present that is pretty much how the US is using them and they represent only 2% of federal revenue. DJT says that he is literally in love with tariffs and pretty much like someone with a hammer seeing everything as a nail, intends to use them universally and aggressively going on offense planning a tariff blitz. Economists, trade experts and most businesses believe that Trump is wrong about tariffs and his plan for tariffs would spark a historical trade war. He says that they are wrong and relishes the opportunity to prove it. He says the way to avoid tariffs is to build manufacturing plants in the US. That suggests that we have an inexhaustible unutilized workforce which we do not. His immigration plans will much further reduce the available US labor. We do not have an unemployment problem and most of the jobs he would create are at the bottom of the wage scale. The US has had a lot of history with tariffs though not recently which means that the…

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