Quote from: Free Market Capitalist on April 08, 2025, 04:53:06 AM

Reagan, whom he praises so much, ran a huge trade deficit and managed to make the US economy prosper enormously, see what Laffer says about it.

When Reagan was in office, the national debt wasn't heading to $37 trillion and most importantly US was still a superpower so they could strongarm most countries into obeying their unreasonable and oppressive demands. So when Reagan in the Plaza hotel in NYC ordered the 4 stronger than US economies (specifically Japan) to destroy their own economies so that US economy can survive, they obeyed blindly.

Today when US regime issues the same order to the stronger than US economies like China, the response is the middle finger!

That's why Trump policies are not working... otherwise there is nothing really new about them.

Quote from: Free Market Capitalist on April 08, 2025, 04:53:06 AM

What he has to do is to remove regulations and lower taxes, but without socialist measures and other nonsense pulled out from under his sleeve.

What he has to do is to significantly reduce expenses. That means stopping the wars and support of terrorism and terrorist organizations.

For example in the past 20 days he wasted billions of dollars in the Red Sea in support of the genocide that is taking place in Gaza trying to break the blockade on the Zionist terrorists .... and failed!
On other places the CIA is hemorrhaging money like in Sudan, in Syria, in Afghanistan like their failed project last month which was like a coup attempt in order to destabilize and revive ISIS-k which is another billion dollar project that has failed so far.

That was just a small number of destabilizing projects, if he shuts them down he'll save on hundreds of billions of American taxpayer's dollars. I dare say that's the entire budget deficit which is going to be $1.9 trillion this year.
But he'll not do that because he is neither allowed to nor capable of changing the US regime's policies. Instead he'll impose tariffs on majority of countries and destroy the US economy even more :S