TH END OF FREE TRADE AS WE KNOW IT

THE TRUMP TRADE IS THE END OF FREE TRADE AS WE KNOW IT

By: Derek Varsalona

So much for the Republican ideal of Laissez-faire Economics.  So much for the free market.  The Trump tariffs are in effect, and it is killing and will kill the American economy, making Americans of every class feel a pinch.  A tariff is a tax on the poor who can not afford a luxurious lifestyle.  Everything's going to get more expensive in the long run.  

President Trump wrongly claims that tariffs are going to level the playing field for everyone. That is dead wrong. A tariff is a tax on imported products. With these new tariffs and taxes, prices are going to go up, and inflation is going to increase in the long run. Americans, your life is going to get more expensive. 

Is there anyone that the tariffs are helping?  I think not.  The trade imbalance might help the unions that make the goods and products.  But in the long run, the unions will get killed by the tariffs since the price of everything will go up.

Tariffs are only going to increase inflation, not bring it down.  The Republicans talk a good game on lowering taxes, but it is the Republicans who are going to raise the cost of living of every individual with these stupid tariffs. 

These tariffs are not effective in bringing down the cost of prices.  It is going to rise the prices of goods and services in every occupational line.   The tariffs are not going to bring down the cost of living.  The tariffs ar,e in fact in my mind are going to rraiseprices on every industry.  

What a tariff is is not only a tax on traded items.  It is also a tax on the poor who can not afford a tariff.  Tariffs are going to raise the cost of goods and services on every item from the supermarket to the electronics store.  Think eggs are expensive now, they are going to get more expensive with tariffs and nonfree trade.  But I almost forgot that there is a bird flu going around so with fewer chickens due to bird flu, that means there is an egg shortage and a shortage in groceries.  As always, comments are accepted.

The Trump Tariffs begin 
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April 3, 2025
Andrew Harnik

Source: President Donald Trump. " Tariffs Work and President Trump's First Term Proves it." Whitehouse.gov. Washington, DC: Wednesday, April 2, 2025. https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/tariffs-work-and-president-trumps-first-term-proves-it/