Tariffs, Taxes, And A Trap
A Briefing Turns Combative
“The room snapped in half” when a single question transformed “a routine briefing into a political knife fight.”
Was the policy “really a tax hike in disguise—or the first honest strike against a rigged global system?”
Leavitt Doubles Down
“Karoline Leavitt didn’t blink.” Instead of calming tensions, she argued tariffs were “not a hidden tax but a forced reckoning,”
meant to expose how “cheap imports, offshored jobs, and global supply chains had quietly hollowed out American power.”
The Moral Trade
She framed tariffs as repayment for years when “the real tax had already been collected in shuttered factories,
stagnant wages, and communities written off as collateral damage.”
Paired with relief for “overtime, tips, and Social Security,” she called it leverage abroad for relief at home.
An Unsettled Debate
Supporters heard “long-overdue honesty.” Critics still saw “a bill Americans would pay.”
Either way, the old trade debate no longer looked the same.
