Krugman: payroll tax cuts are the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy

[soothsayer]

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I don't know if anyone else has said this, but payroll tax cuts are the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy. They won't do anything to solve the employment crisis, but will have dangerous side effects. Yet Trump remains obsessed with them as a cure 1/

[napi21]

1. I'm hoping none of his declarations can be done because only congress has the power of the purse.

It takes $$ to do all the things he put in his exec order, and since he can't just demand $$, they won't fo anywhere.

[soothsayer]

2. It's true, he is going to anger everyone because he can't actually do a damn thing