Pacifist For Life

Pacifist For Life

Tariffs only make sense if financial titans want an industrial base, Mr. Trump

It's really hard to create jobs in America with a high cost of living.

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Scott C. Dunn
Sep 03, 2025
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Every tariff waffle that Trump serves up is a confession. The confession goes something like this:

“I knew this was going on the whole time. My friends and I were screwing the middle class for all it was worth. We made sure the middle class had nothing by sending good paying manufacturing jobs overseas.

“But we don’t tal…

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