This is a tough one to answer.
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Adam Smith Is a Better Economist than Donald Trump: Tariffs are taxes (and necessary), but they are not the most efficient way to raise revenue. | Richard K. Vedder
If you put 50 randomly selected American academic economists in a room and ask them what they thought of raising tariffs as a way of increasing economic growth, I bet at least 48 of them would say that is a bad idea. That is amazing because I cannot think of ANY other major economic policy issue...
