mbrailer

joined 5 years ago
[–] mbrailer@mstdn.social 52 points 19 hours ago

@MicroWave Trump and his surrogates have said at different times that tariffs would (A) pay down the national debt and (B) increase domestic manufacturing.

But if (B) happens, then tariff revenue falls. And if (A) happens, it will mean manufacturing remained overseas.

These goals are perfectly contradictory.