Editorial: Tariffs and unintended consequences

…In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin – 1789

There is one thing I’ve learned in life – everything has a consequence. But it’s the unintended consequences that often catch us by surprise.

Tariffs have been in the news lately. Simply put, (thank you Google) a tariff is “a tax or duty to be paid on a particular cla...