There Trump-Musk affair It must be analyzed outside the foolish fans. Let’s look at the facts.
Elon Musk He had been involved in the Doge (Department of Government Efficiency) during the first period of the new Trump administration, contributing to projects to contain public spending. Subsequently it was removed. Today the direction taken with the new economic maxi-small match is openly contested. And why does he contest it?
Musk has defined the bill a “disgusting abomination” and a “pork-Filled spending bill”, claiming that it will entail an increase in public debt up to a record level of 5 trillions of dollars. Unfortunately, he is right. Numerous observers – including the Congressal Budget Office – they warn that it is an unsustainable maneuver, in a context in which the Annual Deficit of the United States has already exceeded 6% of the GDP and the Credit Rating of the country has been reduced.
The 3.3 trillion dollar Trump package represents a significant increase in debtin the absence of an economic crisis. This was certainly not what was expected from an administration that had presented itself as a tax reduction watter and decrease in state interference.
If Musk really decides to found a party that has the cut of public spending, liberalizations, the primacy of competition and the reduction of the perimeter of the state as priority, we could only welcome the initiative with enthusiasm. It would be a signal expected for too long For those who want the liberal virus virus inverts the route of governmentseverywhere.
There are those who support – including Trump himself – that Musk’s opposition is motivated by personal interests, in particular by the prospect of a reduction in public grants for his activities, from Tesla to Spacex. It is a comfortable accusation, but does not hold the proof of the facts. Musk also supported Trump when the former president frontally attacked the Green agenda, speaking of “climatic scam” and promising the relaunch of fossil fuels. Who accuses him today forgets that Musk has always criticized distorting subsidies And he has repeatedly affirmed that his companies must stand on competitiveness, not on assistance.
Its breakage with Trump does not arise from industrial calculations, but from a real divergence on economic principles: tax discipline, competition and containment of the state. A battle that, if it were really carried out consistently, deserves much more than cynicism or suspicion.
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