Economic expert demolishes Trump's demand for companies to 'eat the tariffs'

President Donald Trump is demanding that U.S. companies pay the entirety of his tariffs rather than raise prices and pass them to consumers — but even if they fully complied with Trump's orders, that doesn't actually make his tariffs any better of a situation for the economy, wrote a prominent tax policy expert on Tuesday.

As Republican lawmakers and entrepreneurs alike sound the alarm that the tariffs will stifle economic growth and supercharge inflation, Trump has picked fights with any...