The Bigger Picture: What is Trump really up to, lessons from the Laffer Curve & the centre-right civil war

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The Bigger Picture: What is Trump really up to, lessons from the Laffer Curve & the centre-right civil war

Simon Rose
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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: What is Trump really up to, lessons from the Laffer Curve & the centre-right civil war
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University says that Donald Trump wants to push through a fundamental rebalancing of the US economy, shifting wealth from the public to private sector. He is willing to go through a period of chaos to do so, using tariffs as a blunt foreign policy tool to bully and cajole. In the UK, we may be at, or over, the peak of the Laffer Curve where taxes cause a change in behaviour. 15-30% of cigarette purchases could now be illicit. Will the government reduce duty to increase revenue? And with Labour stealing some centre-right policies, will the strife in those parties intensify and how can they respond?
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