XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.russian.z1   
   From: os333@netc.eu   
      
    interest.co.nz   
      
   .. We can take Trump's tariff policy as an experiment with outcomes   
   yet to be fully worked through .. It has increased the US   
   government's revenue but by much less than Trump promised. It makes   
   a small contribution to reducing the fiscal deficit which his 'Big   
   Beautiful Bill' is generating, by increasing indirect taxes on   
   ordinary Americans to fund major income tax reductions which   
   benefit the rich. (The macroeconomic effects of the BBB are yet to   
   come through; generally economists expect them to be inflationary   
   and to undermine the integrity of the US monetary system. They   
   expect it will result in higher nominal interest rates, another way   
   in which many ordinary Americans will be paying for the tax cuts   
   which benefit the rich.) Trump promised more manufacturing jobs.   
   There has been a long-term decline in the US with some stabilisation   
   in numbers in recent years. However, since Trump's 'Liberation Day'   
   tariff package, the decline seems to have recommenced.   
      
   Is Trump making America great again? It seems likely that the tariff   
   and other measures Trump has taken has diminished America's long-   
   term (already diminishing) authority in the world ..   
      
      
      
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