A lot of people have been trying to figure out why the U.S. president is making so many Americans suffer by imposing new regressive taxes on them. The fact that the taxes are in the form of tariffs does not change their net impact — the money comes out of the pockets of American citizens who can’t afford the resulting higher prices.
So why is he doing it? I don’t we will find the answer in economic theory. Instead, we can just apply Occam’s razor: “The simplest explanation is usually the one most likely to be correct.”
So here is the simplest explanation: Whoever controls the money, has the power.
This man is not really interested in the well-being of Americans one way or another. Any more than he is actually interested in “immigration reform”, other than as a way to get people riled up and therefore distracted.
Every move he makes is simply a direct move to increase his personal power. By taking for himself what the Constitution has given to the U.S. Congress — the right to determine tax policy — he is acquiring yet another lever of power.
Just as he is acquiring power by creating his own private police force, and effectively empowering them to shoot and kill U.S. Citizens in the streets of American cities. It is all very bold, and it is all very simple.
And if you are not him, it is also very tragic.