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William Watson: Trump chickens out on beef tariff cuts

Ground beef is up 25 per cent since Trump came back to office. Cuts in tariffs would help but because ranchers objected he has backed off

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Older readers may remember a 1984 commercial for Wendy’s hamburgers in which a feisty grandmother, played by octogenarian Chicago manicurist Clara Peller, eyes the high bun-to-patty ratio of one of Wendy’s competitors and says, “Where’s the beef?” Interesting factoid: it was originally supposed to be “Where’s all the beef?” Everybody needs an editor: that would have carried much less punch and become much less famous — though one version of the story says Peller’s emphysema, not editorial genius, is what necessitated the shorter phrase.

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