[Timber Rattler]

I guess Trump never heard of Smoot-Hawley?

How'd that work out?

[Zhang Fei]

[I guess Trump never heard of Smoot-Hawley?

How’d that work out?]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act

Maybe it wasn’t tried hard enough. Let’s make sure by imposing tariffs 10x as high.

[central_va]

Smoot-Hawley is a joke/myth. It was implemented 2 years AFTER the start of the great depression and had little effect on the economy because trade was a tiny part of the overall GDP of the time.