“If Trump wants to fundamentally change the tariff posture of the country, he should go to Congress and request the implementation of those tariffs via legislation.”
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Oh yeah, go to the congress that can’t even pass a budget. Tariffs are so complex that there’s zero chance of congress coming up with any kind of workable tariff system for one country, much less the entire world. Get real.
Whether or not Congress can handle tariffs the way you think they need to be handled is irrelevant. It's what the Constitution says that matters.
Don't like the Constitution, amend it.
Then maybe they shouldn’t be adopted at all — right?
I’m a big fan of tariffs in principle, but it’s stupid to put tariff policy in the hands of unelected bureaucrats. And it’s is becoming clear that putting it in the hands of unelected bureaucrats in the Trump administration who are financiers who have never been involved in manufacturing or farming a single product or commodity in their lives is beyond retarded.