Jean-Baptiste Colbert, King Louis XIV’ s minister of finance, once pithily observed that, ‘The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing.’ With this challenge in mind, it may sound appealing for President Donald Trump to impose an across-the-board tariff hike.
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