I'm John Batchew with my colleague Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago.

We're looking at the two candidates, the binary choice, the weaknesses and strains.

We turn to Mr. Trump's weaknesses, which are legion.

However, with this news of U.S. ads, just 12,000 jobs as hurricanes and strikes produce worst report of Biden's term is the headlines in the financial times.

Mr. Trump's weaknesses will be accelerated because he has some really very poor ideas, if I understand classical liberalism.

Let's begin with trade, with tariffs, with protectionism, with raising the

tariff on goods from everywhere of it, 20% and 100% if it comes from China. That's a weak

idea if it's classical economics. Is it a weak idea here in 2024, Richard?'s a pathetic idea i mean it's a real tragedy that

trump has managed to hoist himself by that uh his model is back in the 19th century when

government was much smaller we put a few tariffs on there and we avoided internal domestic

tax but given the size of government today the external taxes have to be enormous.

They're going to be passed forward to American consumers.

They're going to mean that when you have to import things in order to make subs for exports,

your export trade is going to suffer because the inputs you need to do it, you can't get

from overseas.

And virtually everybody I know who cares about this stuff and knows something about it,

says, you can't do this Phil Graham and Don Boudreau.

Two people did this in the New York time.

And they're 100% right. Do you want tariffs?

Well, I mean, not in this sort of general economic sense.

What you need to do is to have a system in which you

figure out what goods should be excluded for cause. And that means if somebody steals your intellectual

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