A Higher Price
Straight-faced, standing in the White House Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt called tariffs a tax cut – Trumpsters cheered.
Now a tariff can be a lot of things: A fee paid by a Canadian exporter, or by an American importer, or by a consumer standing in a shop – but one thing’s for sure: It’s not a tax cut.
Selling Trump’s tariffs Karoline Leavitt spun a tale.
Trump blamed Zelensky for starting the Ukraine War, spinning a tale to sell the deal he wants to make with Putin.
Not all that long ago, when a politician spun a tale he paid a price. Those days are behind us now. But cheering tales leaves us facing a harder truth: Believing a lie means we pay a higher price.
*******
Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.
A Higher Price
Straight-faced, standing in the White House Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt called tariffs a tax cut – Trumpsters cheered.
Now a tariff can be a lot of things: A fee paid by a Canadian exporter, or by an American importer, or by a consumer standing in a shop – but one thing’s for sure: It’s not a tax cut.
Selling Trump’s tariffs Karoline Leavitt spun a tale.
Trump blamed Zelensky for starting the Ukraine War, spinning a tale to sell the deal he wants to make with Putin.
Not all that long ago, when a politician spun a tale he paid a price. Those days are behind us now. But cheering tales leaves us facing a harder truth: Believing a lie means we pay a higher price.
*******
Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.