ECONOMIST & AUTHOR
Economist Ian Fletcher is one of America’s foremost experts on the problems of free trade. He is the author of Free Trade Doesn’t Work and the coauthor of The Conservative Case Against Free Trade and Industrial Policy for the United States.
He has been senior economist at the Coalition, a research fellow at the US Business and Industry Council, an economist in private practice, and an IT consultant. He was educated at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He lives in San Francisco.
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Democrats on the House Committee on Small Business kept to their year-long messaging that tariffs are raising costs and hurting companies. There were many interesting themes from the Nov. 20 hearing titled How Main Street is Revitalizing Domestic Manufacturing.
The affordability crisis is primarily a result of price increases in five major sectors of consumer spending: housing, food, health care, child care, and energy. In none of those sectors are tariffs a significant factor.
To trade away aluminum and steel workers’ home market in exchange for padding Big Tech’s bottom line overseas is immoral and wrong. The Section 232 actions on aluminum and steel should be singularly focused on rebuilding domestic output across the supply chains, not used as leverage to help Google and Meta become even more profitable.
The America First Investment Policy rightly seeks to ensure that Wall Street can no longer channel hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars into companies that build China’s military, commit human rights atrocities, and threaten our national security. CPA strongly supports Chairman Moolenaar’s effort to codify this policy into law.
