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by Rapzid 319 days ago
These unilaterally, and likely illegally, imposed tariffs under the excuse of bogus "emergencies" by the executive are like to expire along with the power to impose them.

Further there seems to be no coherent tariff strategy that would enact the changes people are fantasizing about. Instead we see special interest, lobbyist, and perhaps even personal quid pro quo carve outs based on who has access to one man while the rest of us are told 15% taxes on foreign goods is a "great deal!".

For any of this policy to be long term it must go through Congress. For it to be effective and not the worst openly corrupt politics we ought to WANT it to come from Congress.

I don't see how anything that's happened with tariffs is evidence of ""the federal government" looking long term".