Tariff pleases Big Labor but will cost consumers

 
The Oklahoman Editorial
Published: September 18, 2009

R ichard Trumka ascended to the presidency of the nation’s largest union, the AFL-CIO , amid much hoopla at the organization’s convention Wednesday in Pittsburgh .

Yet even before he took office, Trumka was celebrating — handed an early inaugural gift last week when President Barack Obama imposed a 35 percent tariff on tires imported from China . Nothing like some old-fashioned protectionism to ...


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