Showing posts with label Taxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taxes. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Tariffs

The word of the week is, apparently, tariff. During his campaign, Trump boasted of a plan to implement a 60% tariff on Chinese goods, and a 20% tariff on virtually all other imported goods, and that was just to start. Calling himself Tariff Man, he claimed that these large sweeping tariffs would lower food prices. But tariffs don't lower food prices, they raise them.