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Created: 2025-07-11 15:21:14 UTC

The Trump admin's tariffs aren't solving debt - they're weaponizing it. When Trump claims "$36T debt comes from trade" (4/24/25), he omits that his tariffs add $22k lifetime costs per household per Penn Wharton - effectively taxing Americans to deepen the hole he pretends to fill.

XX% see tariffs as economic self-sabotage (Gallup 4/25), with XX% expecting price hikes. Yet the admin pushes policies that PWBM shows reduce GDP X% & wages X% - all while IMF warns of global debt crises. This isn't trade strategy; it's class warfare disguised as protectionism, transferring wealth from paychecks to portfolios.

How do you "fix" debt? Trump's answer: make everything more expensive except the lies.


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