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Bernardo de La Paz

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5. I'm afraid it will. Revenue will turn out much less than $6 trillion but oligarchs will be paid first
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 12:39 AM
Apr 2025

It will be less because of economic contraction resulting from tRump's total control of US goobermint expenditures due to compliant maga party leader Johnson.

Even on their own, the tariffs and reciprocal tariffs and reciprocal-reciprocal tariffs will be contractionary. The tariff tax will reduce international trade, by design, hence less revenue. But they do not dial that in.

But the tariffs are layered on top of contractionary cuts in government spending, contractionary firing of government workers, and contractionary deportations/self-deportations of labour.

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