So, essentially, this was a wealth transfer program: Trump’s took the new tariffs he imposed and then transferred the money directly to multinational agribusiness corporations, not to be shared by anyone else in the chain—rather than either leaving the prices where they were and allowing consumers to pay less for farm products, or using the additional tax receipts from tariffs to pay for other government programs. Result: more money out of pocket of consumers going directly into the pockets of agribusiness for the same amount of goods. Slick.