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Wharton Budget Model Projects Disastrous Hit To Families, GDP From Trump Tariffs
The math's done. The verdict's in. Tariffs are guilty as charged.
On Thursday, the Penn Wharton Bud
Non-political and non-normative or not, Penn can expect to be next to have their federal grants frozen across the board until they shape up.
Why not tax corps based on level of offshoring? That would get to the heart of the issue.
Because that might suggest that US companies are partly responsible for the trade deficits. It is much easier to only blame foreigners rather than US companies acting in their shareholders’ best interest. It also makes it easier to justify tariffs to the American people.
Bannon would go for your suggestion and maybe Musk. (Strange bedfellows, eh?) But not so Bessent and Lutnick. I wonder if Vance would go for it?
Didn’t Trump reportedly get a bachelor’s from this esteemed education? It would be ironic if he froze their funds.
….and Trump’s transcript somehow leaked in retribution. Oh please, do it donny!
Bummer these tariff mongers are so bad at math, reasoning, economics, and history. Not much room left for excellence. English, foreign languages, ????