Guys!! I think I’ve finally figured out Trump’s economic plan. It truly is all about the trade deficit.
Bear with me here:
IF the primary economic problem to address in the US is the trade deficit (as Trump claims, and based on his statements over the past decades, he truly believes), then look at why we have it. We have it because we are wealthy & we buy a lot of things.
So to stop Americans from buying foreign goods, make them unaffordable. He’s even based the tariffs on making our most common purchases our most expensive ones.
But Trump isn’t content to stop there, he’s much more ambitious. So he’s ended price controls on drugs, has fired thousands of people and ended contracts that have put many times more out of work. He won’t establish any certainty in the markets because building new factories here is just a short term fix, and he needs high unemployment to really put his plan into action.
He’s got to make us all poor long-term in order to really help us prosper.
And how did we get so wealthy in the first place? In part because of our federally-funded research sector. So kill that, too.
Maybe even Lesotho can now hire us to manufacture things if we can get our average incomes down under $25/ day.
Trade deficit fixed! America is great once again.
