by Patrick J. Buchanan – May 3, 1999
Letter to the Editor – THE BOSTON GLOBE

In his April 22 news story, Michael Kranish suggests that I am saying one thing about taxes in New Hampshire and another in Texas (”Candidate’s stances vary with audience,” Page A1).
Not true. For a decade I have argued for tariffs on imports from China and Third World countries to cut out of America’s colon a huge, metastisizing cancer, as measured by a merchandise trade deficit that just crossed the $300 billion mark. Invariably I have said that “every dime raised by those tariffs” would be used to slash taxes on US producers, workers, and investors.