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Remember when @USCBO and @SecScottBessent said the tariff money would reduce deficits?
Remember when @USCBO and @SecScottBessent said the tariff money would reduce deficits?
I feel bad calling them morons and tell myself to try to be more polite. Then they brag about their massive tax increase on Americans. They are morons.
I feel bad calling them morons and tell myself to try to be more polite. Then they brag about their massive tax increase on Americans. They are morons.
Protectionists can't comprehend the following chart. Annual U.S. Combined International Trade+Investment Surplus or Deficit, 1985-2024.
The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down nearly 100k over the last year, & another 12k jobs were lost in August. Transportation (especially auto manufacturing) and electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well
Fine with being more honest about department names, but let's not stop with Defense. Commerce -> Cronyism Transportation -> Porkbarrel Spending Agriculture -> Farm Socialism
Fine with being more honest about department names, but let's not stop with Defense. Commerce -> Cronyism Transportation -> Porkbarrel Spending Agriculture -> Farm Socialism
Republicans can't stop - nay, they won't stop! - increasing your taxes. Enjoy!
US tariff rates continue to spike to new modern highs amid the trade war—in official data released today, tariffs rose to $28B on $288B in total imports, pushing average effective tariff rates to the highest level in decades at 9.7%
That’s our money stacked there.
New @The_Budget_Lab tariff analysis incorporating all tariffs through Sept 3. This is a major update. We: • incorporate higher assumptions about Canada & Mexico tariff-free import shares; • show 2 scenarios: all tariffs & no IEEPA tariffs after Jun 2026. In brief... 1/12
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"The Republican Party has ever been the exponent of protection to all our people from competition with lower standards of living abroad. We have always fought for tariffs designed to establish this protection from imported goods." Trump's hero, Herbert Hoover.
The @TradePartnersDC data below shows just how much tariff-setting authority the Congress has ceded to the President. For July, we estimate $25.5B of $29B (88%) of tariffs collected stemmed from presidential actions (IEEPA, 301s, 232s, etc).
Donald Trump's agriculture policy is Brazil First.
This is what it looks like when the astrologers take control of NASA.
This is what it looks like when the astrologers take control of NASA.

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