Trump's stunning ignorance

During the 2020 campaign, GOP candidate Donald Trump tried to bamboozle the voters by stating that Biden’s economic plan would lead to a 1929-style depression.

Quite the opposite happened: the stock market reached all-time highs; millions of new jobs were created; businesses flourished; real estate values increased; the number of people owning stocks increased; and poverty was reduced.

Mr. Trump wants to install higher tariffs on most Chinese imports. One of the major factors leading to the 1929 depression was “tariff wars!”

I was born in the early years of the 1929 Great Depression. My grandfather and father’s families, along with millions of other families around the world, suffered dire economic hardships.

Mr. Trump’s stunning ignorance of economic history is now front-and-center because of his tariff proposal, his tax breaks for the wealthy and other “backward looking” examples!

Kamala Harris’ economic plans would build on the Biden presidency’s positive economic gains.

– Hal Mansfield, Green Valley, Ariz.