Trump’s Tariff Gambit: Using Trade Wars as a Tax Cut Backdoor
In a move that’s either economic genius or political theater, the former president revives tariffs as a fiscal lever—shifting the tax burden onto consumers while claiming to ’cut’ federal rates. Classic Washington math: make imports pay (literally) for domestic breaks.
Wall Street rolls its eyes—yet again, policy gets dressed up as patriotism. Meanwhile, Main Street checks the price tags on Chinese goods and sighs.