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  • Whispers of a ‘Millionaire Tax’

    04/20/2025 4:40:59 AM PDT · by karpov · 38 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 17, 2025 | Kimberley A. Strassel
    A popular knock on this second Donald Trump term is that the president stocked his administration with nothing but saluting loyalists. Tell that to the staffers scheming to undercut his signature tax reform—by “managing” him into surrendering to the left’s favorite talking point. A (delighted) mainstream media several weeks ago started writing stories about a new Republican interest in raising taxes on “the rich”—namely hiking the top individual tax rate from 37% to 40%, higher than even under Barack Obama. These reports all come from anonymous White House officials, and always take care to insinuate Mr. Trump is “open” to...
  • Trump’s New Protectionist Age. Blowing up the world trading system has consequences that the President isn’t advertising.

    04/03/2025 5:52:50 AM PDT · by karpov · 107 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 2, 2025 | WSJ Editorial Board
    President Trump unveiled his new “liberation day” tariffs on Wednesday, and they are another large step toward a new old era of trade protectionism. Assuming the policy sticks—and we hope it doesn’t—the effort amounts to an attempt to remake the U.S. economy and the world trading system. All details aren’t clear as we write this, but Mr. Trump’s tariffs look “reciprocal” in name only. First he’s hitting every nation in the world with a 10% “baseline” tariff to sell in the U.S. market. For those he calls “bad actors,” he’s adding up the country’s tariff rate on U.S. goods, plus...