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'A Communism of Pelf': How Trump betrayed American workers
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The Tariff Bill Comes Due at the Checkout Counter
The Power Sits in the White House
Donald Trump’s tariff policy is often packaged as economic nationalism on behalf of workers. The AlterNet interview instead describes a system in which the president imposes trade barriers, businesses absorb the initial costs, and consumers ultimately pay higher prices—while factories dependent on imported components face higher production costs and greater insecurity.
That chain of responsibility matters. Canada and Europe did not make the United States tax its own imports. Workers did not…
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