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I don't sit inside of Trump's head and I don't have any direct line of communication to folks that are
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constructing the theory and the policy if I were to say what's the most masterful plan in an optimistic way of
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what could be going on here I would kind of craft it as follows tariffs aren't being done in isolation they're being
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done along with a coordinated policy effort to reduce income taxes and another policy effort to reduce
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government spending so those are three legs on a stool tariffs reduced income taxes reduced government spending
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they're related to each other because if we increase tariffs to import products is more expensive when the industrial
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supply chain goes to the lowest part of production it's going to end up offshoring when there's no tariffs and
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if there are tariffs then you start to do production here so you're increasing both security for the US supply chain
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but also increasing demand and creation of a Workforce I think that the income tax piece is critical here because in
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order to make the capital available to build that industry here we need to unleash capital and reducing of income
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taxes the economic theory would be that Capital will now flow into these entrepreneurial activity these
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opportunities that have emerged where suddenly it makes sense for me to make textiles to make metals to make
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materials to make cars to make all this stuff here in the United States that I otherwise wouldn't be making so both the
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corporate and the personal income tax by reducing it unleashes capital that instead of going into the government it
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now goes into the private sector into building businesses by reducing government spending we are moving
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workers from the government into the private Workforce so as those new Industries pop up as those Investments
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start to get made in building new industry on Shore where are the workers going to come from that will unleash the
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workforce and it will counterbalance the inflation that we're experiencing so there's a lot of inflation because of
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tariffs and by reducing government spending that's the offset to inflation so those three actions I think are three
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legs of a stool and they actually are all interrelated to one another so that would be my grandmas theory of what
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might be going on