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Tariff revenue is real but far too small to make a dent in the American deficit.

Drawn from what Paul Krugman said

tariffs Taxes on imports: whether they close a trade deficit, what they do to prices, and what they are really for.

Do tariffs do what they are imposed to do?under our view: The counts came in and the tariffs did not do the things they were imposed to do

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What Paul Krugman actually said

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  1. Paul Krugman

    Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work on…

    Revenue from the Trump tariffs, even pre-Court, wasn’t enough to make a large dent in the deficit.

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