{"id":16712,"date":"2025-04-08T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T11:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=16712"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T11:34:21","slug":"trumps-tariffs-a-stark-reality-check-for-every-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=16712","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP&#8217;S TARIFFS: A Stark Reality Check For Every American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2025\/04\/07\/trump-an-assessment-after-the-first-quarter\/\"><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong> <\/a>Trump\u2019s position on tariffs is problematical for many reasons.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>First, let me say that historically tariffs were a legislative issue.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Morrill Tariff was voted by Congress. The Smith-Hawley Tariff was voted by Congress.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>How is it that the executive is imposing tariffs?<\/h3>\n<h3>Assuming the president has this authority and assuming that we don\u2019t have tariffs on others but others have tariffs on the US, the way to success is for Trump to sit down with the offenders and explain that the situation is not working for us. How do they propose to rectify the inequality?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>This would have given Trump the upper hand.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Instead, he is portrayed as issuing threats not only to China but also to American allies. Retaliation has become the game, and this itself raises another serious consideration.<\/h3>\n<h3>With Wall Street predicting a recession caused by Trump\u2019s tariffs, not by the tariffs of other countries, the Federal Reserve has cover to cause the predicted recession, and thereby, to restore Democrat majorities in the House and Senate in the midterm elections and terminate Trump\u2019s renewal of America.<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}