Monday, September 9, 2024

Three radical Trump policies Americans can’t ignore



The GOP nominee's plans for immigration, tariffs and opponents would be violent and foolish.

Opinion by Eugene Robinson


He seems sincerely, and incredibly, unable to understand how tariffs work. He portrays them as "taxes" on foreign countries, but actually it is U.S. importers who foot the bill, who will then pass those extra costs along to consumers. Trump's tariffs would effectively be a huge tax increase on any American who buys anything made overseas.
Speaking last week to the Economic Club of New York — of all audiences — Trump defended this bad idea by praising the McKinley Tariff, an 1890 measure that raised import duties to nearly 50 percent and caused prices to soar. The tariff, named for Republican House member and future president William McKinley, ended up making Americans poorer and producing less revenue for the government, not more.
Anyone who wonders whether a second Trump term would really be so bad should listen to what he intends to do. It won't just be bad. It will be much, much worse.


Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/09/trump-deport-immigrants-tariffs-democracy-policies/

Thursday, September 5, 2024

USA TODAY Network: Dive into Donald Trump's thousands of lawsuits - azcentral



Donald Trump: Three decades

4,095 lawsuits


An exclusive and ongoing USA TODAY analysis of legal filings across the United States finds that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and his businesses have been involved in thousands of legal actions in federal and state courts over the past three decades. They range from skirmishes with casino patrons to million-dollar real estate suits to personal defamation lawsuits.

https://www.azcentral.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/