[nickcarraway]

Tax rates, yes, but tariffs never worked. Including when Bush/Obama/Trump tried them. Or at the start of the Great Depression.

[central_va]

History lesson. Smoot Hawley was signed into law in 1930 and didn’t really take effect until the next year, 1931 almost 2 years AFTER the start of the Great Depression.

[Pelham]

The Smoot Hawley Tariff of 1930 was virtually the same as the Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922 that preceded it.