Tariffs Won’t Bring Jobs Back to America—Only Economic Discipline Can Save Us

America’s Fantasy of Economic Resurrection Both parties are banging the same tired drum: “Bring back American jobs!” And both are selling you the same illusion—that tariffs can rewind history and rebuild what decades of fiscal insanity destroyed. Trump's recycled tariff push is making headlines again, marketed like a miracle cure for a bleeding economy. But let’s set the record straight: slapping a 30% tax on foreign widgets won’t magically make Cleveland great again. You can’t save a dying industry with bureaucratic Band-Aids—especially when the patient flatlined years ago. Enter the economist Peter Schiff, the libertarian voice of reason in a chorus of economic snake oil salesmen. Schiff knows the real problem isn’t China. It’s us. We don’t save. We don’t…