Source: The Dispatch
by Jonah Goldberg
“On May 1, 2003, George W. Bush announced, ‘Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.’ He was standing below a giant banner that read, ‘Mission Accomplished.’ At the risk of inviting charges of understatement, subsequent events didn’t cooperate. But it took a while for that to be widely accepted. We’re in a similar place when it comes to Donald Trump’s experiment with a new global trading order. ‘Tariffs are making our country Strong and Rich!!!’ proclaims Donald Trump, making him not only the first Republican president in living memory to brag about raising taxes on Americans, but also the first to insist that raising taxes on Americans makes us richer.” (08/13/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/tariff-revenues-trump-taxes-on-americans/