President Trump has begun the enormous task of ‘re-balancing’ the United States, to regain its leadership position on the world’s market. The media is yet again attempting to fuel panic and incite chaos, with one-sided and irresponsible scenarios blasted from their platforms. Most people go about their daily lives unknowingly affected by decisions made by elected political officials, until they check their bank balances. We all have difficulties understanding the bigger picture of governmental procedures, until they affect us personally. That’s why we do our best to elect representatives to our highest office, in the hopes that they will have our best interests at heart when making political decisions.
The recent ‘tariff war’ is one example of the poorly managed state of affairs that our country has been gradually accepting and functioning in, thanks to a slew of inept and corrupt leaders.
The US has operated on a trade deficit since 1975, which means that US imports have exceeded its exports for 50 years. In other words, the US is spending more money on foreign goods and services than it is earning from selling its own products abroad. This situation has led to an increase in foreign investors acquiring significant assets within our country, which has led to a loss of control over domestic resources and businesses. The US economy has been kidnapped by foreign countries, and we have been paying the ransom, in the form of tariffs, for decades. We have slowly been handing over the control of our economy to other countries.
Since President Trump has been in office, he has been cleaning up corrupt government funded organizations across the board. Protesters asked why they are coming out in droves to oppose these measures have been incapable of justifying their consternation. It is their pronounced dislike of a man, not his performance, which has led to sad and incomprehensible protests.
Now he is shifting the United States ability to regain our country’s financial competitive edge and liberal fanatics are losing their minds. The confusion is staggering amongst the very group that fought, almost violently, for a new ‘climate deal’. Past President Biden came up with the idea to offer Elon Musk a $400 million contract to produce more ‘green cars’ and his followers eagerly applauded. Now that he is supporting our new president in revealing wasteful spending, he is the enemy, and they are torching his cars, factories and outlets, without any plausible or intelligible reasoning.
President Trump’s plan to help the United States and its citizens include the following:
• Reduce income and business taxes (providing more money to grow our economy)
• Reduce federal individual, corporate and other taxes (increasing our spending power)
• Reduce regulations (giving power back to the people)
• Reduce government spending (removing wasteful spending found by DOGE)
• Reduce the size of the government (allowing the people’s voice to be heard and reduce corruption, by eliminating corrupt departments, agencies and personnel)
• Increasing tariffs worldwide (re-establishing fairtrade agreements worldwide)
The tariff issue is more complex and deserves some explanation to appease the fearmongering taking place on most media outlets and by corrupt politicians.
Simply put, President Trump is increasing tariffs because other countries have been doing so against the US for years and our government has done nothing but comply and weaken our position on the world’s market. This agenda to weaken our country has always strengthened under liberal presidents. The ones that screamed social justice, unwittingly allowed them to increase the size and power of our government, hiding their nefarious plan in plain sight. Basically, most liberal politicians value their job security more than the health of our economy.
President Trump is putting forth the most aggressive effort at establishing pro-American growth in American history. A little history on our economic system will help understand why we desperately need this to happen right now and understand why we are where we are in 2025.
From 1776, our founding year, to 1913, the US did not have any federal income tax, until it ratified the 16th amendment to the US constitution. There was a form of tax imposed during the civil war, but it was ruled unconstitutional, in 1872. Approximately 95% of the government was being funded by tariffs from its founding date until 1913, when the Federal Reserve was established.
There were two major industrial revolutions during that time period: the first from 1750 to 1850 and the second from 1850 to 1914. Many would argue that there was a third industrial revolution under President Ronald Reagan, because he imposed massive tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, he deregulated domestic markets and the economy grew exponentially by almost 30%. It was so massive that it continued to grow under his successor, President Bill Clinton, who deceptively took credit for Reagan’s eight-year achievements. President Reagan’s policies helped to balance our country’s budget from 1983, and it continued into the 1990’s.
The world experienced two great depressions as well: the first from 1873 to 1879, known as the Long Depression, and the second from 1929 to 1939, known as the Great Depression.
Libertarians are screaming that the increased tariffs imposed by President Trump are bringing us back to the 1930’s and an impending depression. They are citing the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 as a comparison, which they believe compounded, if not created, the Great Depression. The increased tariffs at that time did not push us into a depression, monetary policies did because there was a severe monetary contraction imposed by the Federal Reserve. When monetary assets should have been provided for investments when the economy was retracting, they restricted that flow through their suffocating policies instead. Milton Freedman, a liberal economist wrote extensively on this subject. In 2002, Ben Bernanke, former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014, admitted this by saying: ‘I would like to say to Milton and Anna, regarding the Great Depression, you’re right. We did it, we’re very sorry.’
Freedman reported that the US money supply fell by over 33% from 1929 to 1933. There wasn’t enough physical money available for anyone to buy daily goods, let alone invest in larger purchases or in the stock market. The US economy began to collapse, and the Federal Reserve never took responsibility for this downfall. President Trump is not increasing tariffs to collapse our economy, he is boldly demanding other countries to pay their dues and balance our foreign relations to a fair-trade situation for all to benefit. He is trying to shrink the size of our government, which is making capitol hill liberals and RINO’s (Republicans In Name Only) terrified for their jobs. President Trump is using tariffs to help re-industrialize the United States. As the US President, he has indirect and limited influence over monetary policy. He can appoint members to the Federal Reserve Board, including the Chair, but that does not guarantee control over their decisions. Their independence means that they retain the final decision-making power. Therefore, he is using legal political tools to help the US regain its political, economic and domestic power to what it should be on the world’s stage.
The US has devolved into an ‘import country’, we don’t produce much of anything anymore of substance. We rely heavily on the exports from other countries. Capital goods, excluding automotive, cost us $859.1 billion in 2023. Electric devices and computers are the two types of highest capital goods imported into the US. Telecommunications equipment, industrial machinery, semiconductors, food machinery and aircraft parts follow. Consumer goods are the second-largest commodity imported by the US with $757.7 billion spent on imported goods. Pharmaceutical preparations, cellphones and other household goods are at the top of import commodities. Most of these goods come from Mexico, Canada and China.
Not only are we paying more for goods imported to us from these countries, but most of these countries refuse to buy our goods in returns. In the case of China, they are stealing our ideas, technological expertise and culture to then create ‘knockoffs’ and sell these worldwide, while imposing tariffs on their copied goods sold back to us. This is INSANE and President Trump is changing all of it, by whatever legal means at his disposal. Those who are opposing this strategy are either evil or unwilling to understand this, because they refuse to admit that they have been deceived and rethink their positions. Basically, their egos are hurt, and they don’t know how to remedy the pain, so they lash out without reason.
China imposes 67% tariffs on their goods sold to the US, Trump is imposing a 34% reciprocal tariff on our goods sold to them. The irony here is that China hardly purchases any of our goods. The European Union imposes a 39% tariff on US goods, Trump is reciprocating with a 20% tariff. Vietnam imposes a 90% tariff on US goods, Trump reciprocated with a 46% tariff, and they have just informed us that they will be removing their tariffs if we remove our reciprocal ones.
China is a massive problem on a global scale. They had a period of trade deficit in 1993, but since then it has operated on a stupendous trade surplus, which keeps on growing. The US spends over $100 billion per year on Chinese goods. President Trump is trying to reduce the trade deficit with China by recently increasing tariffs to 54%. He is also tackling other unfair trade practices like intellectual property theft and lack of access by US companies to the Chinese market. China has financially benefited from its trade surplus for so long that it has been able to grow its army into one of the most powerful threats on our planet. It has reinvested in its domestic infrastructure and surpassed most western countries. China has contracts on both ends of the Panama Canal, which could paralyze the world if China decides to block that passage. All they must do is lower their present tariffs on the US and we will reciprocate. If not, they are proving Trumps’s point of their unfair trade policies, which will affect them greatly in the near future. China is the world’s largest economic, political and military threat right now and if we don’t come together to oppose their dominance, we will all soon pay a heavy price. President Trump is fighting to rectify this for the United States, which will hopefully wake up the rest of the world to take back their natural sovereignty.
China, Mexico and Canada are all in an uproar over President Trumps’ new tariffs. This means that goods and services sent to the United States from other countries will increase in price for US companies. He is doing this for two main reasons. First, he is trying to change consumer habits to purchase more American produced goods and services and stimulate more international companies to manufacture in the US. This will lead to a much stronger US economy, more stable jobs and less dependencies on foreign countries. Second, this will allow for more room to renegotiate future trade deals, stopping illegal immigration and the flow of Fentanyl (which China exclusively produces and exports). Canada has decided to go on the defensive and clapped back with a 25% tariff of their own on the US. Mexico has said they would do the same but now have retracted and are in negotiations to lower their tariffs with the US. China is preparing to file a lawsuit with the WTO (World Trade Organization) to fight the US tariffs. People don’t understand why President Trump is not backing down and politicians are grandstanding again to fuel more chaos and fear.
In 2023, Canada sent 76% of their exports to the US, which accounts for 19% of their GDP (Gross Domestic Product). In 2024, Mexico sent 78% of their exports to the US, which accounts for 37% of their GDP. Both countries exports from the US combined, make up only 2.7% of our GDP. They purchase very little US goods and service. Getting into a tariff war with the US would hit these two countries dramatically by disastrously affecting their country’s GDP.
China’s exports to the US makes up 19.74% of their GDP. If trade negotiations collapse between China and the US, China will take the hardest hit, and their economy will suffer the most. This is probably why there are not directly retaliating with higher tariffs but instead filing a complaint to gain international leverage against the US. Let’s hope that President Trump doesn’t flinch and stands his ground.
Another component of President Trump’s strategy to re-industrial the United States is to couple these increased tariffs with massive tax cuts, across the board. Liberal socialists have started their tone-deaf rebuttals about inflation and deficits. Tax cuts do NOT cause inflation or deficits. Inflation is caused by the increase of money supply. During the great depression, the Federal Reserve deflated the economy by restricting the available supply, which killed our economy. There was no inflation, there was deflation. They turned a recession into a depression. The primary cause of inflation during the great depression was caused by increased government spending. Government action is always the cause for inflation, never the consumer and producers within a private sector. Producers and consumers make money for a country and expand the economy’s wealth. We the people create the engine of growth and prosperity, we do not print money the government does through monetary policies, we make money and wealth. When the federal government spends and borrows money it doesn’t have, the federal reserve monetizes it (converts it to a dollar amount). If that spent and or borrowed money exceeds governmental revenue, the federal reserve creates massive debt and inflation by printing more money. Tax cuts create economic growth, wealth and prosperity. Tax cuts means that the private sector that creates the wealth can use more of that wealth for capital investments, research and development, an expanded workforce, adjustment pay to retain quality employees, and the list goes on. More money flows to and from those who produce goods and services. Most majority liberal governments, on the other hand, take the money and redistributes it based on political and ideological decisions.
Past President Biden spent 2 trillion dollars, not including special funds set aside for COVID, on programs that produced and benefited nothing and no one. The DEI comes to mind as well as the slew of wasteful organizations created under the USAID government department. He threw our country into the largest debt on record and produced zero wealth, diminished our economic growth and threw us into a war we never agreed to fight. He deceived our country by calling this spending the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’.
We are slowly digging ourselves out of a massive hole created by psychopathic leaders that wanted our demise. We have an enormous chance to heal and prosper, on a global scale. Things might get a bit tough in the near future financially speaking, but the long-term prospects are looking very positive for all of us.
This is what the fight for the highest potential for humanity looks like and keeping that intention daily will bring us closer to achieving it together.
-Super Sleuth
