Right-libertarians would generally be some of the people most-opposed to barriers to trade. They’d be on the low-barrier end of the political spectrum.
Both Cato and Reason had some articles up, which I linked to earlier, complaining about how tariffs didn’t make any economic sense. I thought that it was notable, because Trump was doing a lot of government-size cutting — something that one would expect them to possibly be happy about him, since they’d be the main cheerleaders for a small government — but instead both were just full of attack articles on him, angry about a number of his policies, and especially tariffs.
goes to investigate
It looks like now Reason has created a static “tariffs” section on their front page. The featured items are:
Trump Loves Tariffs. Fentanyl Is Just an Excuse.
In Speech to Congress, Trump Promises More Tariff Madness
Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads Between Protectionism and Dynamism
Tariffs Are In Effect. Expect Everything To Become More Expensive.
Cato doesn’t have a tariff section, but of their most-recent four blog items, three are complaining about Trump on tariffs:
Freedom, Not Tariff, Is the Most Beautiful Word in the Dictionary
The Drug War Is Failing, So Let’s Try… Tariffs?
Trump’s Tariff Walkback Bows to Economic Reality but Leaves Plenty of Problems
Right-libertarians would generally be some of the people most-opposed to barriers to trade. They’d be on the low-barrier end of the political spectrum.
Both Cato and Reason had some articles up, which I linked to earlier, complaining about how tariffs didn’t make any economic sense. I thought that it was notable, because Trump was doing a lot of government-size cutting — something that one would expect them to possibly be happy about him, since they’d be the main cheerleaders for a small government — but instead both were just full of attack articles on him, angry about a number of his policies, and especially tariffs.
goes to investigate
It looks like now Reason has created a static “tariffs” section on their front page. The featured items are:
Trump Loves Tariffs. Fentanyl Is Just an Excuse.
In Speech to Congress, Trump Promises More Tariff Madness
Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads Between Protectionism and Dynamism
Tariffs Are In Effect. Expect Everything To Become More Expensive.
Cato doesn’t have a tariff section, but of their most-recent four blog items, three are complaining about Trump on tariffs:
Freedom, Not Tariff, Is the Most Beautiful Word in the Dictionary
The Drug War Is Failing, So Let’s Try… Tariffs?
Trump’s Tariff Walkback Bows to Economic Reality but Leaves Plenty of Problems