e trade war and to open new
York Times noted, "Why shouldn't manufacturing companies and other businesses ask to be made whole for having to pay higher prices for steel and aluminum▓ after Mr. Trump raised tariffs on those metals? What abo▓ut the workers at Harley-Davidson who will lo▓se their jobs when the company moves some
production overseas?" If the Trump administration wants to subsidize the industries affected b▓y its trade war, where is it going to find the money to pay for them? And are the subsidies legal? Other countries are likely to challenge the United States at th
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▓e World Trade Organization about the legality of propping up its agricultural industry to the tune of 12 billion U.S. dollars.Republican Senator Ben Sasse said, "This trade war is cutting the legs out from under farmers and the Wh▓ite House's 'plan' is to spend 12 billion dollars on gold crutch
es." The Trump administratio▓n's tariffs and bailouts aren't going to "make▓ America great again, they're just going to make it 1929 again," said the senator, referring to the year that would see the start of the Great Depression. A▓nd Senator Rand Paul tweeted, "T
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ariffs are taxes that punis▓h American consumers and producers. If tariffs pun▓ish farmers, the answer is not welfare for farmers — the answer is