Trump, Tariffs and the Truth About His Economic Plans

特朗普、关税及其经济计划的真相

The Opinions

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2024-09-12

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Binyamin Applebaum on why Harris’s ill-defined plan is still better than Trump’s.
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  • You've heard the news.

  • Here's what to make of it.

  • My name is Binya Applebaum and I write for the editorial board of the New York Times about economic policy issues.

  • Tonight, the high stakes showdown here in.

  • Philadelphia between Vice President Kamala Harris and.

  • Former President Donald Trump, their first in this week's debate.

  • The moderators kicked things off by asking both candidates to address their plans for the economy.

  • Many Americans tell pollsters that the defining issue in this election is the high cost of living, the cost of groceries, the sense that buying a home is increasingly out of reach, the sense that their incomes are just not keeping pace with the cost of the things that they want and need.

  • Presidents have limited impact on the economy, but limited isn't zero.

  • And we have quite a straightforward contrast in this race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

  • So you've got one candidate who may make things better and one who is pretty certain to make things worse.

  • Trump's economic agenda is hard to characterize as sort of ideologically coherent.

  • His biggest plans fall into three buckets.

  • One is tariffs.