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Trump Isn’t a Tariff King
Wall Street Journal ^ | August 31, 2025 | WSJ Editorial Board

Posted on 08/31/2025 6:07:39 PM PDT by karpov

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1 posted on 08/31/2025 6:07:39 PM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

The Global Street Urinal losers chime in.


2 posted on 08/31/2025 6:10:13 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: karpov

The WSJ will go down with the sinking globalist ship, and will never admit they were wrong, no matter how successful the tariffs are.


3 posted on 08/31/2025 6:11:16 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: karpov

congress gave presidents the power, if the NY times doesn’t like it they need to talk to congress!


4 posted on 08/31/2025 6:12:10 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: karpov

Bush and Obama used tariffs, how can they be against the law now?


5 posted on 08/31/2025 6:13:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: karpov

No one cares about the Mandarin Street Jackasses.


6 posted on 08/31/2025 6:13:13 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

This is WSJ, not NYT.


7 posted on 08/31/2025 6:14:07 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: ripnbang

Not much of a difference is there?


8 posted on 08/31/2025 6:15:50 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: karpov

Trump isn’t the tariff king

He kinda is. WSJ should study his background. They might learn something

Ok.

We’re 40 T in debt, WSJ. No thanks to you

Trump will fix it. So. Help, or step aside.


9 posted on 08/31/2025 6:16:19 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: karpov

I beg to differ


10 posted on 08/31/2025 6:16:38 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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A panel of judges said it! it must be true then.
Judges said Trump can’t deport illegal aliens either despite it being the law.


11 posted on 08/31/2025 6:24:02 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: ripnbang

“ This is WSJ, not NYT.”
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LOL … is there any difference now-a-days? Just sayin’.


12 posted on 08/31/2025 6:32:30 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MA)
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To: karpov
I despise the WSJ, but they're not wrong about this.

The Constitution is very clear about this:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises ... (Article 1, Section 8)

13 posted on 08/31/2025 6:32:31 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Although my eyes were open, they might just as well be closed.")
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Then Slow Joe had no authority to take petroleum out of the Strategic Reserve. There was no emergency except for Rats running for reelection.


14 posted on 08/31/2025 6:33:50 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: karpov

The Wall Street Journal forgot to mention that - in most cases - the Trump Tariffs simply EQUALIZE the USA tariffs, against foreign tariffs, that have existed for decades!


15 posted on 08/31/2025 6:37:33 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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Trump Isn't a Tariff King

And Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, is no Dairy Queen. 🍦

16 posted on 08/31/2025 6:49:08 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: karpov

Just because congress concocted a ‘law’ or ‘act’, and a previous chief executive signed off on it, does not require that a new chief executive is bound to obey it.


17 posted on 08/31/2025 6:53:21 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: Alberta's Child

This clause deals with commerce between the states, not foreign imports, which are a purview of the executive.


18 posted on 08/31/2025 6:58:13 PM PDT by bakeneko
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This clause deals with commerce between the states, not foreign imports, which are a purview of the executive.

No, it doesn't. And the third clause under that same section completely contradicts what you've said there.

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

19 posted on 08/31/2025 7:06:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Although my eyes were open, they might just as well be closed.")
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To: karpov

Congress have long abandoned many of their responsibilities.


20 posted on 08/31/2025 7:07:48 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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