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President Trump is determining equivalent reciprocal tariffs, considering remedies, and estimating fiscal impacts on the national government and information-collection costs to the public. Fast, extensive change, even change that’s initially for the worse, works out best for freedom. Even so, tariff increases have done serious harm and have persisted for decades. It’s worth discussing constitutionality, harms, dynamics, and options. Constitutionality Tariffs unconstitutionally deprive each person of a different proportion of his liberty, as do all revenue sources other than fully flat taxes on labor income. Setting tariffs is archetypal legislative power. Tariffs raise revenue, so they must originate in the … → The post

Lew Rockwell     Apr 03, 2025