{"id":355105,"date":"2018-04-03T21:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-and-his-tariffs-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T21:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:05:03","slug":"trump-and-his-tariffs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-and-his-tariffs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and His Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_101003\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101003\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-02-at-9.08.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Marco Verch | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump promised to \u201cmake America great again\u201d. The slogan defined his campaign and his presidency. His bluster was often forgiven because of the sentiment attached to that slogan\u2014it inspired a hope that Trump\u2019s policies would protect the U.S. economy and ensure that the declining standard of living of Americans would be reversed. A year into his presidency, there is little evidence of any improvement. Inequality continues to define the American economic landscape\u2014CEOs, new government data show, can make up to a thousand times more in their salaries than their employees. It is impossible to suggest that high inequality and joblessness should be the character of a Great America. Red hats with that slogan are easy to produce, but it is a bitter pill if these are made\u2014as they often are\u2014in Bangladesh, China and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has now announced a tariff policy on aluminium and steel, which he hopes will redouble efforts by the manufacturing sector to kick-start a languid economy. Trump framed his tariff policy around the framework of national security rather than economics. Other powers, mainly China, he said, were \u201cassaulting our country\u201d. It was to prevent this assault that the U.S. would build a high wall around these key sectors of its manufacturing. It was clear that this was less about economics and more about politics when Trump announced speedily that \u201cgood friends\u201d\u2014Canada, Mexico,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/04\/03\/trump-and-his-tariffs-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Marco Verch | CC BY 2.0 President Donald Trump promised to \u201cmake America great again\u201d. The slogan defined his campaign and his presidency. His bluster was often forgiven because of the sentiment attached to that slogan\u2014it inspired a hope that Trump\u2019s policies would protect the U.S. economy and ensure that the declining standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}