# What do you think is the goal of this economic chaos? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [March 29, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-the-goal-of-this-economic-chaos/1016302 "2025-03-29T13:00:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 89
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-the-goal-of-this-economic-chaos/1016302/89 "2025-04-04T01:02:09Z")
I’d like to refer back to a couple of earlier posts of mine that … I _think_ … may explain my view of, at least, the sales pitch we’re being given for what Trump is doing and why: > [@Socialism(or at least, a version thereof) Vs Capitalism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socialism-or-at-least-a-version-thereof-vs-capitalism/927389/44): > > I would certainly agree with that. But some measure of that was a negative sum game, particularly where outsourcing took formerly solid middle-class jobs away from entire US communities. Which was totally foreseeable. One of the things I’ve said here before is that the ‘ownership’ class made conscious (and gleeful) decisions to displace substantial domestic workforces in large swaths, leaving them Dollar General and OxyContin in exchange. We created the rust belt in – relatively – extremely… > [@Trump's Economic Plan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-economic-plan/1005796/69): > > Of the Trump-Biden tariffs, the Tax Foundation says, essentially: We estimate the Trump-Biden tariffs will reduce long-run GDP by 0.2 percent, the capital stock by 0.1 percent, and employment by 142,000 full-time equivalent jobs. Candidate Trump has proposed significant tariff hikes as part of his presidential campaign; we estimate that if imposed, his proposed tariff increases would hike taxes by another $524 billion annually and shrink GDP by at least 0.8 percent, the capital stock by 0.7… I get the vision _that he’s selling us._ I buy nothing in his approach, and put zero stock in the likelihood of any success that realistically outweighs the pain I see the ~~country~~ poorest Americans enduring. Meanwhile, I see it as a redistribution of wealth _from_ those at the bottom rung – always most hurt by regressive taxes (which this is) – _to_ those at the top (via extension of Trump’s tax cuts) – the ones who basically decimated the middle class to begin with. It’s just _lovely,_ isn’t it?? Kumbaya … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-is-the-goal-of-this-economic-chaos/1016302)._