What POTUS Trump's Tariffs Really Do in His MAGA, America-First Land and to the Large Majority of the People of the USA
04-03-2025 -- Reiterating more expansively
What the Trump right hand takes away in taxes, with 83% of this federal tax cut benefitting the billionaires and mega-millionaires, his sweeping-and-high-tariffs magician left hand more than offsets and raises in retail consumer-purchase taxes, the equivalent of a disguised federal sales tax, under the label of tariffs, that is in addition to state and local government sales taxes, predominately paid by the middle- and low-income classes and substantially and meaningfully reducing their purchasing and overall financial power.
Such tariffs on imported foreign goods and input products used in the manufacture or production of domestic goods relax the competitive pressure on domestic producers and wholesalers to produce and supply the retail and mass household consumer marketplace with goods at best competitive prices and tempt and incentivize them to uncompetitively raise prices per se, which import goods retailers and inputs user domestic producers in part must do nevertheless to preserve their profit margins or profitability and solvency. They also incentivize the revving up or emergence of black-market underground economies to sell, or selling, at much lower prices smuggled, heisted and counterfeit goods, including, but more than, electronics, appliances, auto parts, jewelry, apparel, dried and canned foods, alcoholic beverages and tobacco smoking items, at much lower and affordable prices, which are consequently tariff and entirely tax evasive and free.
Extensive and high tariffs like those of POTUS Trump imposed on so many nations will promptly provoke compensatorily retaliatory, reciprocal tariffs on USA export businesses and good from the central government authorities that have taxing power and the control of the affairs in international commerce of those nations targeted and hit by the questionably legal tariffs of 1930s-and-1940s-fascist-era ideological minded MAGA US President Trump. They will do this for the purpose of supporting and protecting the international-trade economic interests of their national business community, which result in a loss of market welcome, competitiveness, share and profitability of US business and goods in those nations.
Potentially, these tariffs levied on foreign imports into the USA are not legal because the US Constitution, which is the supreme law of the USA, confer all fiscal, including tariff-levying and commerce regulation, authority of the USA to the US Congress and although the US Congress has delegated some of its tariff levying, etc., authority to the US President by statutory-law legislated Acts of Congress, its such legislation very well might not be US Constitutional and thus Constitutionally illegal, as may be its delegation to the US President its, in part, US Constitutionally conferred war powers authority.
Tariffs levied on imports to the USA by the US President and presidential executive order may in earnest be US Constitutionally illegal because the US Congress and the laws legislated by the US Congress respectively are subordinate to the US Constitution and laws of the US Constitution, and the US Congress cannot on its own, through only its own legislation, change the US Constitution and its laws, which is to say as regards these issues that the Congress, as a matter of US Constitutional law, cannot legally overrule or bypass the US Constitution in any way, or nullify, abandon, alienate or share the powers, in whole or the least part, conferred to it by the US Constitution, except to only US Constitutionally properly modify, as US Constitutionally prescribed, the US Constitution and its laws, limited to those that are not the unalienable rights that it irrevocably decrees, by the legislative passage of initiatives to amend the US Constitution, being amendments to the US Constitution, by successively two-thirds of each the House of Representatives and Senate of the US Congress and three-fourths of the state legislatures.
Click on the link below to access the article of the US Constitution conferring the power to levy tariffs to the US Congress (and not the US President):
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-8/