The implementation of broad tariffs on allies is strategically counterproductive and harms American consumers by increasing the cost of goods.

“And all my point is who suffers? The consumer, right? The American who goes to Walmart and now his food is more expensive, his clothes are more expensive.”

The United States should aim to decouple its economy from China and move towards a balanced trade model with a US-centered economic and security bloc.

“I think what the goal is is to say, you know, this sort of liberal world order needs to be replaced for for the US's purposes with more of a a US- centered ideally economic and security block. And we want to have high levels of free trade with allies in that block, but we would like to see overall t”

Tariffs act as a regressive sales tax that disproportionately harms low-income Americans and complicates domestic manufacturing supply chains.

“and tariffs essentially function as a compounding sales tax because they rais the cost of basic Goods”