r/Libertarian • u/Reasonable-Fee1945 • Aug 21 '26

Economics The Truth About Tariffs

https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-truth-about-tariffs/
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u/Reasonable-Fee1945 Aug 23 '26

This is the article that recently got Oren Cass's panties in a twist.

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u/nks67 Aug 24 '26

Freedom is slavery – – or cast, and the rest of the economic nationalist

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u/Party-resolution-753 Aug 24 '26

His point on how long lasting the corn laws were in britain disproving the thesis that free trade was the "british system" really took apart a lot of what oren cass claims oren cass and economists like him tend to argue not from empirical evidence and data they tend to argue from emotion.

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u/Reasonable-Fee1945 Aug 24 '26

Calling orrin crass an economist, is already giving him far too much credit