Krugman et la redistribution aux USA

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Today in America, the president is the millionaire Donald Trump. He campaigned for protectionism and tax cut. And even if the polemics the president started on social medias outshined his politics, he actually kept his promises. He signed a decree meaning the end of the American's participation in the TPP, he even opted out of some international organisms and agreements : the Paris agreement on the climate, Unesco and the intonational Pact for the gestion of migrants and refugees. But the most important reform of his mandate so far is the biggest tax cut in 31 years Congress definitively adopted. To him, this is a « historical victory for the Americans » but his detractors argue that this reform is actually a gift for the wealthiest.
Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times an article called « Liberty, Equality, Efficiency » in March 2014. He is an American economist and even won the Nobel Prize in 2008. In this article he advocates redistribution politics, so indirectly tax increase. In 2014, the President is Barack Obama, a democrat. Donal Trump, elected in 2016, is a republican. If they are both really different and see politics antagonistically as well, they are both American... so they have an American vision on politics, especially on socialism, and so redistribution, even if Obama is obviously way more progressive than Trump.
First we will see how this article explains the situation in the United States and then we will study the arguments given by Paul Krugman to adopt redistribution policies.