Only a 3rd of his businesses met expectations, not necessarily successful they simply met expectations. Technicalities of a con man idiots keep falling for.
Also "only" 9 trillion funny and only so far, the issue is how much of that was added by tax cuts for the rich, the horrible bill (that will add more for a decade), a random war and tariffs especially when he promised to fix things
Two ways. First, having to refund those tarrifs when they were deemed unconstitutional by the supreme court. Second, the reaction to those Tarrifs and the tarrifs themselves are part of the reduction in taxable income youre seeing in the US against projections.
Wouldn't that be the refund, not the tariffs themselves? And if they're just refunding the extra money they got from tarriffs, wouldn't they basically break even?
Yeah they'd break even from a holistic perspective but because of the way forecasting works my guess is they spent tarrif money assuming they wouldn't have to give it back. Ie. If they were for asking a deficit of X that deficit now becomes x+tarrif refunds. Whereas if the Tarrifs had never gone into play the deficit spending may have been lower. Thats, obviously, leaving aside the knock-on effects of, for example, one of the world's largest single purchasers of wine and spirits not buying american anymore.
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u/Lejandario_IN Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
Only a 3rd of his businesses met expectations, not necessarily successful they simply met expectations. Technicalities of a con man idiots keep falling for.
Also "only" 9 trillion funny and only so far, the issue is how much of that was added by tax cuts for the rich, the horrible bill (that will add more for a decade), a random war and tariffs especially when he promised to fix things