India’s Prime Minister Faces Blowback Over Trade Deal With Trump to Lower
Tariffs
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a big reduction of sky-high tariffs, but
critics say he undermined Indian sovereignty and undercut the nation’s
farmers.
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The irony, of course, is that the very attribute that pushed S&P to downgrade -- the inability of the U.S. political system to agree on large topics -- may help improve the fiscal situation. At the end of 2012, the Bush tax cuts are slated to expire. If the two parties fail to agree on some very controversial issues in the midst of an election year, taxes will rise across the board, on income and on investments, producing trillions of dollars in revenues over the coming decade.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Gross is economics editor at Yahoo! Finance.