{"id":30557,"date":"2018-03-02T11:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=30557"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:10:47","slug":"ron-paul-on-trumps-new-tariffs-punish-china-by-taxing-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/02\/ron-paul-on-trumps-new-tariffs-punish-china-by-taxing-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on Trump&#8217;s New Tariffs: Punish China by Taxing Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every special interest has a pitch on how to get government benefits at the expense of everyone else. This week we get the steel industry pitch. Americans are supposedly going to &#8220;Beat China&#8221; by paying a tax to the U.S. government. With enough propaganda, Americans will go along with it. But Ron Paul will tell the truth instead.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1zQY8cFA49k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every special interest has a pitch on how to get government benefits at the expense of everyone else. This week we get the steel industry pitch. Americans are supposedly going to &#8220;Beat China&#8221; by paying a tax to the U.S. government. With enough propaganda, Americans will go along with it. 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