Sacramento Bee
Gov. Gavin Newsom has the right political instincts as he seeks to insulate California from the potential economic catastrophe of a tax war on global trade, seeking to spare the state from retaliatory tariffs. Unfortunately, it just won’t work.
Sadly for California, this is a moment when Newsom would actually have to be the president to effect change. As big as we are, California is not an island when it comes to trade. Our ports unload an estimated 40% of all containers that arrive in this nation from somewhere else. And nobody really tracks where it ends up. …
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