[Hawthorn]

Misleading headline. It’s not that tariffs are “like” a tax increase. They ARE a tax increase. And they are taxes on American consumers and American businesses. Foreigners don’t pay them. Period.

[central_va]

Yes, that is the whole point of them. That and the protection of industry. WIN - WIN. They are the only form of taxation that is completely non progressive. All real conservatives should be wildly in favor of them.