They say we “free market fundamentalists” don’t take national security & manufacturing seriously… but then they slap national security tariffs on aluminum (kinda important for manufacturing) from Canada (weird but not dangerous). Who actually isn’t taking these things seriously?

Senator Marco Rubio In case you wondered why he didn't link to any sources:

WASHINGTON (AP) — China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for use in its war against Ukraine, says a U.S. assessment. apnews.com/article/265df8…

Unilateral tariffs aren't an effective approach. First because other countries are importing the stuff the U.S. stopped buying from China, and second, because the U.S. is importing more from those other countries thus indirectly still relying on imports from China.

'So is modern industrial strategy, as some in the United States like to call it, really about jobs, competing with China, or just manufacturing more things in the country? It’s difficult to tell. And, if the outcome by which this new set of policies should be measured is hard to…

If I were to uno-reverse card Rubio's weird 'free market people are like DEI' thing, Rubio suggesting industrial policy as a way to deal with a plethora of economic and non-economic issues is a lot like Biden admin Everything Bagel-ism!

Blaming China's entry into the WTO for the decline of American manufacturing jobs is ahistorical nonsense -- unless the Chinese somehow developed time-travel technology?

No Substitute for Victory foreignaffairs.com/united-states/… via Foreign Affairs

Expiring 2017 Trump Tax Cuts Create a Chance for Reform by Kevin Brady and Douglas Holtz-Eakin: 'The choice for Congress isn’t between going back to 2017 and stagnating in 2024. Lawmakers should take a clear look at the state of the tax code and make reforms aiming at enhanced fairness,…

For policymakers hoping to reduce the IRA's costs, they should start with the EV credits. New from me Tax Foundation:

taxfoundation.org/blog/ev-tax-cr…

'China did not get rich through industrial policy but by improving productivity in agriculture, allowing foreign investment in manufacturing, and unleashing the private sector.' imf.org/en/Publication…

“The policy is very bad. Tariffs make consumers poorer. They shrink the economy,” Alex Durante , an economist at the Tax Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, told CNN in a phone interview. “This would probably be the most damaging part of a Trump 2.0 economic agenda.”…

Japanese industrial policy is not a good model for America: 'there is no evidence to support the claim that Japanese industrial policy during the 1955-1990 period enhanced growth by sector, industries with scale economies, nor productivity growth or “competitiveness.”'…

'A critical look at the arguments for industrial policy, past and present, reveals that its recent popularity is not only misguided, but is likely to have negative economic and geopolitical consequences for the United States and the world.' on.cfr.org/3vIU5YF via Council on Foreign Relations