
The US tariff's Cold War as a potent bargaining chip and a promising tactic for income tax reduction
President Trump has dragged his administration into an economic Cold War by imposing high tariffs and sanctions on most countries and blocs of countries that trade with the United States. He announced that all of them had been pursuing trade policies significantly detrimental to the United States' interests for many decades. In particular, exchanging goods and services with China resulted in a growing trade deficit amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars. To a lesser extent, this disparity was also notable in trade with the European Union, India, and many other countries. Therefore, President Trump took the plunge with a sudden and radical policy of achieving parity, which provoked a loud and belligerent reaction among those affected and an avalanche of criticism in the American media and political circles, which predicted an economic collapse caused by overwhelming initial inflation and the subsequent descent into a deep depression.
However, as the weeks passed by and the economic sanctions and tariffs against trade rivals increased, we started to see a growing willingness to negotiate with the United States toward a fair trade policy. This trend started with the United Kingdom, and agreements were soon reached with China, which, up until recently, would not budge to this pressure but was forced to do so by the overwhelming economic shock it was suffering. Furthermore, it is known that around 80 other countries, including those in the European Union, were requesting to enter into negotiations.
It is noteworthy that a renowned American economist and Nobel Prize nominee, Dr. Art Laffer, is not among the critics raising the specter of an economic collapse, but quite the opposite. Laffer is the author of the economic theory illustrated by what is now called "the Laffer Curve," which graphs the theoretical relationship between tax rates and the resulting levels of government tax revenue.
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