The founders, I thought, believed in tariffs to protect native industries until they could get their foot on the ground and sustain themselves.
Trump's tariffs made no sense whatsoever and were all about exacting retribution and appealing to a base who had no idea how the tariff's work.
The end result was farmers in the USA dumping product and being reimbursed for it by the federal government -product that they would have normally sold to China , but for the tariff war.
Comparing Jackson to Trump makes sense- two political outsiders who shook up the Washington establishment by being independent from them.
The founders, I thought, believed in tariffs to protect native industries until they could get their foot on the ground and sustain themselves.
Trump's tariffs made no sense whatsoever and were all about exacting retribution and appealing to a base who had no idea how the tariff's work.
The end result was farmers in the USA dumping product and being reimbursed for it by the federal government -product that they would have normally sold to China , but for the tariff war.