Even without tariffs. Though I doubt any of the high-tariff countries produce anything funny.
- I think tariffs are a bad way to run things. You want a general tax on imports, that’s fine. Congress should pass it. The attempt to use them as rule changes in a never-settled jigsaw game is….I can’t even find the words. Taxes, which tariffs are, should be uniform regardless of product.
- Two-thirds of the SCOTUS appointees from Trump voted against him. Obviously, this means that the institution is broken, needs to be expanded and packed by the Party of Jim Crow. If you don’t understand that, you’re $TERMOFDERISIION
- Rand Paul’s take was very important
This actually might push the governing0-by-emergency strategy so often employed since 9/11.
4. Though I need to more-closely examine the opinion, I’m wondering if this is actually a furtherance of Roberts’s actions against arbitrary power. Regardless of what you thought about the decision on Obamacare, he really threw a monkeywrench into the Democrats’ oft-used assertion that government can regulate just about anything. no, Congress has the power to tax. The “individual mandate” was a tax, so it’s contituaionally-acceptable. (I do disagree with him that the penalty isn’t a capitation, but that’s a separate discussion. I really enjoyed Justice Kennedy’s dissent on that…)
So, as is so often the case, I’m ultimately okay with this.
“Both Sides” are wrong for different reasons.