This week President Trump has presented us with charts, calculations and figures representing tariffs as they currently exist. Have he and his team made mistakes in their calculations?
This is from Wittgenstein (sort of). Suppose you ask Jean-Paul to divide 50 by two. His answer is 125,001. Has he made a mistake?
No. Jean-Paul has no idea how to calculate. He doesn't know enough to make an error. In the words of the song, he can't get started.
Trump and his team have no idea how tariffs work or how to add them up or calculate impact and so on.
They just make up numbers to put on charts.
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