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Economic experts are ripping apart one of Donald Trump’s latest false claims. During the ex-president’s Pennsylvania rally Saturday, he said, “A tariff is a tax on a foreign country. A lot of people like to say it’s a tax on us. No. It’s a tax on a foreign county. It’s a tax that’s ripping us off and taking our jobs. And it’s a tax that doesn’t affect our country.” In 2018, Urban Institute and Brookings Institution’s Tax Policy Center senior fellow Howard Gleckman wrote: *A tariff is a tax on imported goods\. Despite what the \[former\] President \[Trump\] says, it is almost always paid direct…

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