This one is brief for me but still too long for a social media post. It’s about tariffs or, more exactly, how Trump is leveling them.

Typically, changes in the budget have to originate with the House of Representatives and get passed into law. Control of the executive’s purse strings was one of the first moves towards a viable democracy in the Anglo-American legal tradition, returning to the Magna Carta. However, US law allows the president to levy taxes by declaring an emergency, also a presidential power. (1)

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