In a recent blog post, Dr. Jeffrey Singer critiques President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on imports from Canada, China, and Mexico as part of the war on drugs. He asserts that Trump “intends to punish Americans by making them pay more for goods—including domestic manufacturing inputs.” Singer emphasizes that these tariffs are essentially “taxes on American consumers, not on foreign countries,” as the burden falls on U.S. buyers rather than the governments of those nations.
Singer points out that illicit drugs are primarily smuggled by U.S. citizens, stating that Trump “ignores the fact that illicit drugs are largely smuggled by US citizens through legal border crossings and sold to US citizens. He warns that ‘“cracking down on fentanyl precursors may hasten drug traffickers’ shift to nitazene trafficking, drugs that are even more dangerous and potent than fentanyl.
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