7 - Economic Rocket Fuel
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 December 2022
Summary
Institutions cannot be sustained unless people have enough resources to make them work. That includes political institutions, which is why taxes have been called the “lifeblood” of the state – without them states simply cannot function; their institutional efficacy dwindles.1 Trump understood this. If he wanted to attack the deep state, then cutting its revenue supply and spending was an excellent way to do it. That’s what he tried to do.
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- Institutions under SiegeDonald Trump's Attack on the Deep State, pp. 164 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022