Trump’s Proposed Tax Cuts and Increased Tariffs Could Hurt Poorer Households
www.nytimes.com
Some Republicans want to use revenue collected from higher duties on foreign goods to finance tax cuts. Economists say such a shift could widen the gap between the rich and the poor.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11512645

Economists say such a shift could widen the gap between the rich and the poor.

Literally the primary raison d’être of the modern Republican party

  • AnticorpEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    Hurting poor people isn’t an unfortunate side-effect, it’s a bonus?

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    The problem is, the people who need to hear these things aren’t reading the NYT.