WSJ board slams tRump over drug price controls, but caution: their reasoning is noxious.

[Eugene]

Wall Street Journal Flames Donald Trump Over His 'Worst Idea Since Tariffs' (HuffPost)

"For that trade we could have elected Democrats," argued the conservative newspaper's editorial board.

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board continued with its needling of Donald Trump on Wednesday, this time explaining in a scathing article why it believes the president’s planned expansion of drug price controls should be a no-go.

It’s Trump’s “worst idea since tariffs,” the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper warned with its headline. Trump’s market-spooking trade policies have been relentlessly attacked by the paper, leading to his bristling comments to one of its reporters this weekend.

“President Trump and Republicans appear to be shrinking from reforming Medicaid, but that’s not the worst of it,” the Journal said of his drugs plans. “To replace the spending slowdown they won’t get in Medicaid, they may expand drug price controls. For that trade we could have elected Democrats.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wall-street-journal-donald-trump-worst-idea_n_681c4a39e4b0b11c497973a4

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1. WSJ has been critical of trump, with good reason. But I can't tell whether this is slamming trump or Dems.

[Eugene]

2. both with Dump straying from the true path of free enterprise

They welcome the shrinking of Medicaid, but not with price controls.

Conservatism that screws the needy is fine with them, but authority that infringes on the bottom line is oppressive.