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Trump’s Tariffs and the Problem with Retaliatory Protectionism

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025
We ask of the State and Society only one thing — a fair field and no favors … a strict cutting out of all paternalistic activities, and the unfaltering insistence that government shall really perform its basic and fundamental duty, the protection of the individual citizen from violence and interference.
– Hanford Henderso, The Freeman [July 1956]

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February 12, 2025
Foreign Aid Equals Political Bribery
To oppose the dismantling of USAID and foreign aid in general, defenders of this statist agency and of foreign-aid programs are engaging in predictable conduct. They are pointing out all the people who will supposedly die or suffer if USAID programs and foreign aid are terminated. It’s a variation of what they say whenever someone objects to welfare-state programs here in the United …
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