All right, and his work yesterday to the subscribers, my next guest used about the fact that maybe everyone, just about everyone is getting it all wrong when it comes to President Trump and his goal with these tariffs. Now conventional wisdom, he says, is underestimating these goals. So let's bring him monetary macro.com, CIO, Joseph Wang and Joe. Let's start with the tariffs as revenue and maybe weaning off internal taxes and leaning more on external revenue streams. You showed a great chart of revenues.
好的,我的下一位嘉宾昨天向订阅者讲述了一个观点,即或许几乎所有人在涉及特朗普总统及其关税目标时都错了。他表示,传统观点低估了这些目标。那么,让我们请出monetarymacro.com的首席信息官 Joseph Wang。Joe,我们先从关税作为收入来源,以及可能逐步减少内部税收转而更多依赖外部收入流的问题开始谈起。你展示了一张很棒的收入图表。
If we just keep tariffs at Canada and Mexico, 25%, that would be a billion dollars over 10 years. Yesterday I used the chart from the Tax Foundation, a scenario where Trump's tariffs would bring in $4 trillion over 10 years. I mean, it sounds like a lot of money, would that be enough? Well, hey, Charles, thanks for having me. So yes, I think the market really misunderstands what this tariff thing is all about. Yes, sometimes you're for negotiation, but it's also very clear that they're about reshaping the global order and raising revenue.
The president has gone out of the way and created an external revenue service to do that. Now use $4 trillion, it sounds like a lot, but seriously, we're in big trouble in terms of our fiscal situation, right? Two trillion deficits going on and on forever. Now this is not going to be the end all be all, but it's going to help in every little bit helps. And besides, if you really look at it, a lot of things could happen going into the future.
Right now we're importing $3 trillion worth of stuff or volume weighted tariff rate is only 2.2%. Maybe we can continually raise that and so maybe we can really make a difference on the fiscal deficit, but I think it's a step in the right direction. You know, another area I think people are underestimating President Trump is with these overtures, you know, global overtures, Greenland, for instance. Of course, the administration has already had some success in Panama, but I think they want...
even more. And you talk about that, right, that Trump may be having a global, bigger global footprint and maybe even Canada as a 51st state. Yeah, so, you know, President Trump talks a lot about President McKinley as being his favorite president. Now President McKinley is known for tariffs, that's true, but he's also known for other things as well. President McKinley gained Puerto Rico and X-Y, he enlarged the union.
Now President Trump has been making overtures for Canada for some time. He's been seeing it so much that I think he's actually quite serious just yesterday. I was listening to a press conference with him and he talked about Canada being that this is something that could happen if it was done right, because I'm paying and so forth. It didn't seem like he was joking. I think he wants his name in history books forever. Now I understand some Canadians don't like this, but from President's perspective, this is game changing.
And Canadians are a great people, they got a lot of great resources. And culturally, I think we're quite similar, right? We are basically family and have been for many years. So I don't think it's unreasonable. And Greenland, of course, I think that's a work in progress, but it is a small country from what I hear. It's a deal that could happen, right? I mean, we could just give each of 60,000 people there, each of them a million dollars. It'd be the best real estate deal in the world.
I really believe that the native folks there do want this deal. I really do. And Denmark has been making some overtures. Listen, I love our friends to the north, but they work only 32 hours a week in the GDP per capita is a little bit less than Mississippi. So I don't know. They should be asking that to jump into the fold, but we'll see. Joe, thanks a lot, my friend. Baby. Thank you, Charles.