Author: John Park

John is a Junior studying Computer Science and Economics at UC Berkeley. He is passionate about economics and political economy and is particularly interested in the implications of automation and the fourth Industrial Revolution. John has experience in the biotechnology industry and will be interning at Amazon this summer. In his free time, John enjoys playing poker, scouring random research literature, and napping.

Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts: Economic Rocket Fuel or Inequality Perpetuated?

By: John Park

On: February 27, 2020

In: BRB Shorts, Economics

Tax cuts are generally a very popular policy. As then Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and other proponents of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act argued, who doesn’t want their government to “giv[e] the people their money back”? President Donald Trump went even further, claiming that the “…huge tax cut will be rocket fuel for [the] economy” by creating new investment, raising workers’ wages and bonuses, and increasing growth. Continue Reading

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