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A Benefit of Trump’s Tariffs: The Left Discovers Milton Friedman

Will liberals start examining the economist’s positions on other policies such as school choice, health care, regulations, the size of the federal government, tax policy, and the minimum wage?

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Economist Milton Friedman in 1976. Via Wikimedia Commons
LAURENCE ELDER
LAURENCE ELDER

After President Trump imposed broad tariffs, some of his left-wing critics began quoting economists like Milton Friedman, who adamantly believed in unilateral free trade.

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LAURENCE ELDER
LAURENCE ELDER

A 'firebrand libertarian' according to Daily Variety, best-selling author, radio and TV talk show host, Laurence Elder has a take-no-prisoners style, using such old-fashioned things as evidence and logic. He shines the bright light of reasoned analysis on many of the myths and hypocrisies apparent in our system of government, our society, and the press itself.

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