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Posted on 05/19/2025 1:48:49 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Rand Paul attacked the economic logic of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy on Sunday — and agreed that the policies raise constitutional concerns.
The Kentucky Republican said Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners are based on “an economic fallacy” about trade deficits and objected to the president’s move to pursue them without congressional approval during an interview on ABC’s “The Week.”
“In the past, the court has allowed these things, but I think it’ll be an interesting thing because most tariffs in our history have been passed by Congress,” he said. “We’ve never had widespread tariffs that have been done by fiat by a president, and I object to that.”
Paul is one of a few Republicans who hesitated to rally around Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs on foreign trading partners, which the administration rolled out in early April. But Trump ended up backtracking on the high-stakes levies, issuing a 90-day pause on the tariffs for every affected country except China in April.
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“Now, we do have a long history, though, of both parties abdicating their responsibility on tariffs and granting power to Congress, which brings up another constitutional question, can Congress delegate powers given to it under the Constitution to the president?” Paul said.
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He’d be wrong. In an absolute libertarian world, everything goes to where it is cheapest to produce, including jobs.
Libertarianism can only work within national borders.
Rand Clown should go up to Canada and explain to them why their tariffs do not work
Government has “Common Sense” with President Trump at the helm !!!!
Before President Trump when was government known for having
common sense????
I don’t see the benefit of Rand Paul.
He loves cheap sweat shop kids labor with no environmental laws.
I dont see the benefits of him...
Pretty idiotic of him to question their usefulness, when he sees all the companies moving manufacturing to the United States, or at least out of China.
Imagine if the court reversed this, and we lose all those jobs, investment, and income?
Rand is blind, or bought.
Rand is a prisoner of his libertarian ideology. His blind commitment to free trade ignores the reality that it only works when trading partners play fair.
Trump, by contrast, isn’t an ideologue. He treats problems like puzzles—testing, observing, adjusting. Whether he realizes it or not, he’s applying the scientific method.
Rand’s ideological bias short-circuits the application of the scientific method—distorting observation, skewing interpretation, and blocking objective reassessment. His libertarian rigidity blinds him. He can’t grasp Trump’s approach precisely because it isn’t ideological—it’s practical.
Stupid comment.
The Democrats have filed legal cases on every Trump action where they can find a judge to hear it. Does that confirm Rand's positions as good?
They handed the power of tariffs over to the President and they also allow all these institutions like the EPA etc to make up rules and regulationsvice laws which is congress’s job.
Put bluntly Congress is incapable of doing it’s job and that’s why we’re nearly $40 trillion in debt which we will bein the next year or so if not sooner.
Any trade or tax policy is designed to accomplish one or more objectives. I guess you can say the Trump tariff policies are a “fallacy” because the objectives are all over the map and often contradict each other. But we knew there wasn’t a lot of thought put into any objectives when you had senior administration people running around claiming that these tariffs would result in hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues AND a massive relocation of industry from foreign countries to the U.S. These could not happen simultaneously — by definition.
Rand’s liberal-tarianism is just an excuse to help his bros and the republican party’s bros, the democrats. The republican party in Washington is worried sick about their democrat buddies. The communists aren’t doing so well right now.
So when the companies that have pledge to bring some of their manufacturing to America begin to materialize , what will Paul use as the rationale for it? When he looks at a budget surplus of 1 trillion dollars , where did he thinks that comes from?
When ideology overrules common sense you get this type of thinking.
If he’s a purist, he’ll claim that paying more is a tax.
Personally, unless your source of income is completely independent of everybody else, you should have vested interest in ensuring everybody can have a job, even if it means paying a bit more.
Ultimately, if the lowest jobs have to keep dropping their wages to compete with slave labour, those at the lowest won’t be spending money that allow those who are more fortunate to have higher incomes. Eventually, we can’t pay millionaires for them to be millionaires.
Senator Paul - tell that to China and every other country that’s been using them against us.
Sadly, he has squandered every single ounce of respect he had ever held and exposed himself fully as a globalist.
He is dead to me.
rand made a friend with political how nice
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