To the editor,

Recently, Sen. Cramer voiced concerns he has about relations between the United States and Canada, and the need to repair that relationship. Cramer rightly points out that Canada is one of our most important trading partners. He goes on to say the situation “grieves me at a personal level” and he “will be speaking to President Trump about it.”

This grief would be more believable if Cramer remembered that he is, in fact, a senator. And as such, he can do much more than just speak to Trump. The Constitution provides for Congress, and just Congress, to establish taxes. Tariffs, by definition, are taxes paid by the people who purchase the goods. Trump is the first president since George H.W. Bush to raise taxes, taxes that increased to the highest level in modern history. All

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