To the editor: In 1942, when FDR was president and I used to be in an eighth-grade civics class in Los Angeles, our instructor informed us that the one distinction between the Republicans and Democrats was that the Republicans need protecting tariffs and the Democrats don’t.
In that day, I didn’t actually know what a tariff was. It took 83 years and a president named Trump to truly accomplish this economically unsound thought. With my inventory portfolio sinking to a brand new low, I now know what a tariff is.
Martin A. Brower, Corona del Mar
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How will tariffs designed to make the U.S. richer and Mexico poorer have an effect on immigration? Poverty and hardship are driving forces behind mad rushes to enter the US. Tariffs will exacerbate these. And let’s not child ourselves — immigrants will enter irrespective of how excessive we construct the wall.
Wouldn’t it’s higher to maintain each of us affluent, as an alternative of impoverishing one and the opposite spending nice quantities to fend off the neighboring poor?
Joel Athey, Valley Village
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To the editor: Maybe Canada and Mexico could possibly be the larger individuals and finish import taxes on meals. Not less than this manner, poor folks gained’t should undergo as a lot.
Paul Cramer, Oxnard
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To the editor: In 2018, then-President Trump mentioned, “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” We will see, however I’m uncertain.
Joe W. Hilberman, Los Angeles
The author is a retired Superior Court docket choose.
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To the editor: So the president has now given his tariffs a one-month reprieve to assist our auto trade. What an ingenious transfer, top-of-the-line political strikes a politician has ever made within the historical past of our nice nation! I used to be questioning if he’d ever carry his “weave” into motion as an alternative of simply utilizing it in his speeches. That is positively going to assist our financial system and produce some much-needed calm to the inventory market. You present them, Mr. President!
Cal Teraoka, Huntington Seashore
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To the editor: Trump negotiated the present commerce agreements with Canada and Mexico in 2020. If he’s such a grasp negotiator, why did he negotiate a deal that he now believes will not be in our nation’s greatest curiosity?
Harvey Englander, La Quinta
The author is a well known L.A. political guide.
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To the editor: President Trump’s second time period is bringing to thoughts thinker George Santayana’s adage, “Those that can’t keep in mind the previous are condemned to repeat it.” Trump’s coverage of elevating tariffs additionally remembers Herbert Hoover’s disastrous response to the Nice Despair.
Stephen A. Silver, San Francisco
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To the editor: I’ve discovered a lot in simply six weeks! Who knew the best way to treatment inflation was so as to add 25% tariffs on all the things we purchase?
Marty Foster, Ventura
