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Which bono Trumpf? Whose interest does it serve? As Ivan Krastev noticedIt serves his own interests in a grotesque way. But what about other people? We know from The brutal closure of USAID That he does not take care of a yot for the poor overseas. But does he show concern about the ordinary Americans who voted for him? The A big beautiful Bill Act (Obbba) The way through the congress shows that the answer is “no”. It is a powerful example of “Pluto populism“(” Plutocratic populism “), as I called it for the first time in 2006. The rich receive most of the delicacies; the poor are getting poorer; and the budget deficit remains huge.
Customs are a sales tax for imported goods that also increase the prices for domestic substitutes. On the whole, poorer people spend a higher proportion of their income for goods than richer people who spend a higher proportion of services or save a lot of them. So the tariffs are regressive like Kimberly Clausing and Mary Schön of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. That can be part of why Trump loves her. In the meantime, his tax cuts usually go to the rich.
The Yale budget laboratory estimated the effects of the tariffs that were introduced by the representative house on June 1, 2025 and the OBBBA. Of course, the latter will probably change. But the fact that the House of Representatives adopted it is amazing. In short, the combination of the tariff with the OBBBA would “reduce income after taxes and transfer on average among the lower 80 percent of US households. The lower 10 percent of households would be determined by more than 6.5 percent by more than 6.5 percent, while those at the top would increase an increase of almost 1.5 percent.” (See diagrams.)
According to the Yale Budget Lab, as “conventional evaluated, Obbba costs $ 2.4 tn $ (4TN $, if the temporary provisions are permanently). If it turns out that this judgment is not in reality (I suspect that the tariffs will not bring in so much money), the conclusion of Lovely is that” as a fiscal policy, the Trump -agenda regressives is Tax cuts are that are only partially paid by regressive tax increases ”.
In his substance Paul Krugman Clasp That he “has a fairly yellowish view of (republican) intentions. But this calculation is so cruel so regressive that it even shocked me.” I also think so cynical. According to a letter The number of people without health insurance could rise from the impartial congress office (CBO) due to proposed changes in Obbba and elsewhere by 16 million to 2034. There is also to be given Cuts for the Food Stamps program. It cannot be wrong to determine that many will die to pay billionaires large tax cuts.
If we assume that the trumponomy does not have an impact on the economic growth of US economic growth, the net effect in the fiscal position of Zölle Plus OBBBA seems to be a continuation of the previous fiscal trends. Therefore, fiscal deficits remain great and the debt increases compared to GDP. In The long-term budget outlook 2025-55The CBO predicted that the ratio of the federal debt held by the public to GDP would increase from 100 percent this year to 118 percent in 2035.
In his book How the countries go bankrupt: the big cycleRay Dalio from Bridgewater argues that the reduction in the deficit must be 3-4 percent of GDP in order to stabilize the debt rate. Is such an adaptation currently important? The honest answer must be that nobody knows. The United States is the largest and most constant dynamic economy in the world and outputs the global reserve currency. This gives him a large room for the maneuver. But nothing takes forever. If people lose confidence in the United States, it could be forced to take over the debts on ever less favorable conditions. Ultimately, a large part of it could be at short notice and therefore to the interest rates of the Federal Reserve.
The latter would then be under pressure to keep interest rates low. The effects of such debt monealization that destabilized financial repression to a great extent. Than with Rudiger Dornbusch Once said: “In the economy, things take longer than they think that they will do it, and then they happen faster than they thought they could.” So the reasonable decision is to change the course before it is too late. This makes even more sensible if you have decided to wage almost all of your creditors a bitter trade war: the hard experience of Trump’s presidency will surely change the perception of the United States through the world.
In general, populism should be defined as a form of politics that “the people” represents “the elites”. Populists can be on the left or from the right. Trump’s populism is obviously of law because he emphasizes culture, ethnicity and nation. This offers a fine cover for guidelines that the Plutocratic elite benefit compared to almost everyone else. But in an excellent 2023 paper, “Populistic leaders and the economy”Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick and Christoph Trebesch reach two conclusions that apply to both rights and left -wing populists: First, both sentences cause democracy themselves; Secondly, their accidents, nationalism and attacks on institutions tend to perform great economic costs.
In the United States, both parties have now effectively agreed on the rudeness of fiscal cleverness. The Democrats certainly have little benefit from it now, since they have so often set the stage for regressive tax cuts. A good guess is that the US’s debt continues to increase. Dalios warnings are then foresight. Than late Herbert Stein Once said: “If something cannot go on for and not, it will stop.” The questions are only when and how painful.
