[GOP_Party_Animal]

This retaliation policy is both cruel and not very smart. It's as if you and I were in a rowboat out at sea and I shot a hole in my end of the boat. What should be your response? If you were Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross or Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, you might advise retaliating by shooting a hole in your end of the boat.

Even though I really like they guy, this is disingenuous of Williams. Yes, of course tariffs hurt American consumers, but what he purposely leaves out here is that they also hurt other nations trying to sell goods here. The real argument is "Who does it hurt more and can the hurting stop the foreign nation from imposing tariffs on American exports?". I wish his column had addressed that.

[central_va]

Yes, of course tariffs hurt American consumers,

In the short term perhaps, but who would they help in the long term?