Post Tagged 'Trump tariffs'

September 03, 2025

When the State Becomes Shareholder: A Catholic Case Against America’s Drift Toward Socialism

In 1931, Pope Pius XI warned of a “grave evil” in his encyclical Quadragesimo Anno: the temptation of centralized power to absorb the functions of families, associations, and businesses. He called it a violation of the natural order—a usurpation of human freedom and responsibility. Continue Reading...

May 08, 2025

America’s New ‘Reshoring’ Policy: A Warning from Hungary

When Donald Trump campaigned on the grand promise to bring blue-collar manufacturing jobs back to the United States, I knew I had seen and heard this before. As a former Hungarian Member of Parliament from a small town, mainly boasting factories with assembly lines that serve car manufacturers, I had seen how this brand of campaign rhetoric serves only a short-term political interest but does not serve the country’s future. Continue Reading...

February 21, 2025

The Tattered History of Tariffs

Much like bell-bottom jeans, tariffs are making a comeback. President Trump imposed tariffs on about $380 billion in products in his first term. The Biden administration kept most of those tariffs, then expanded them for China-made goods, including computer chips, steel, and aluminum—and quadrupled tariffs, from 25% to 100%, on electric vehicles(EVs). Continue Reading...