Organised and scripted by the leftist Soros-backed 50501 Movement, big on volume but empty on substance, it sums up the screeching and squawking of the thousands protesting Trump’s policies.
Reasoning with their Pavlovian mentality is futile. Nonetheless, what needs to be appreciated is that they are agitating on behalf of those whose money-laundering schemes and corruption are being upended by Trump and Musk. The economic revolution Trump is driving spells exposure and indictment of the shadow government, which has been controlling America for 60 years.
Trump promised a change in how America’s economy functioned. His experienced business acumen has long been critical of the trade imbalance, which hurts Americans. The NAFTA deal, crafted by Bill Clinton, cost America 5 million jobs and closed 90,000 American factories. China currently imposes a 67% tariff on American imports. The EU posts a 39% tariff. Currently, the US has a $1.2 trillion trade imbalance.
Trump wants fair trade by means of reciprocal tariffs. In order to obtain that, he has unilaterally applied 10% tariffs on all America’s trading partners along with punitive tariffs representing half of what respective countries charge. Thus, China, for example, with its 67% tariff charge on US goods, now has an additional 34% tariff charge on goods entering the US.
Already, Trump’s tariff medicine is working. Fifty countries have contacted the White House seeking tariff negotiations. Vietnam has said it would reduce its tariff charges to zero. Already, $5 trillion in new investments have poured into the US to avoid tariff charges. Apple, Hyundai and the world’s main semiconductor manufacturer from Taiwan are now bedding down in the US. Since Trump took office, 228,000 new jobs have been created.
Cutting waste and fraud, as Musk is doing, will contribute to the lowering of corporate taxes from 21% to 15%. That, in turn, with the elimination of regulatory red tape, will facilitate business expansion and lower taxes. It’s an economic revolution in progress.
But change and adjustment invariably cause turbulence. As Trump says, “You have to take medicine to fix something.” What he is fixing is the world’s economic system, which has been based on ever-increasing debt and borrowing. It is a system that benefitted the few at the expense of the masses.
If the nutjobs protesting against Trump and Musk understood this, they would be applauding. After all, the Democrats offered only more debt and a $4 trillion increase in taxes. But then they are not the party of common sense, which now prevails.
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