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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] "Big, Beautiful" or Brutal? Trump's Tax Bill and the Return of Trickledown

Whatโ€™s cut says more than whatโ€™s kept.

โ€˜ํฌ๊ณ  ๋ฉ‹์ง„โ€™ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์ธ๊ฐ€, โ€˜์ž”ํ˜นํ•œ' ์นผ๋‚ ์ธ๊ฐ€? ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ๋‚™์ˆ˜ํšจ๊ณผ ์‹ ํ™”

๋‚จ๊ธด ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค, ์ž˜๋ผ๋‚ธ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฒ•.

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

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๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

The U.S. House narrowly passed a sweeping tax and spending package proposed by former President Trump. Framed as a middle-class win, the bill instead offers substantial tax relief to the wealthy and corporations, while slashing social programs and green energy credits. The result? A projected $4 trillion (2025) addition to the national debt and a bitter partisan standoff in the Senate.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•˜์›์ด ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ „ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์ œ์•ˆํ•œ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์„ธ๊ธˆยท์ง€์ถœ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์Šค๋กœ ํ†ต๊ณผ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์‚ฐ์ธต์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์ด๋ผ ํ™๋ณด๋์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ถ€์ž์™€ ๊ธฐ์—…์— ํฐ ๊ฐ์„ธ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๋ณต์ง€์™€ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์€ ๋Œ€ํญ ์‚ญ๊ฐ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, 4์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(2025 ๊ธฐ์ค€)์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ƒ์› ๋‚ด ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ•œ ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This legislation revives familiar conservative strategies: shrink the welfare state, favor business interests, and hope economic growth will offset debt. But this time, the stakes seem higherโ€”with student debt forgiveness rolled back, millions facing healthcare loss, and the climate agenda reversed.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์€ ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์ง„์˜์—๊ฒ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณต์ง€ ์ถ•์†Œ, ๊ธฐ์—… ์šฐ์„ , ์„ฑ์žฅ ํ†ตํ•œ ์žฌ์ • ๋ณด์ „์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์ฃ . ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—” ํ•™์ž๊ธˆ ํƒ•๊ฐ ์ฒ ํšŒ, ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‚ฌ๊ฐ์ง€๋Œ€ ํ™•๋Œ€, ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋Œ€์‘ ์—ญํ–‰ ๋“ฑ ๊ทธ ์—ฌํŒŒ๊ฐ€ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ปค๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Standard Deduction (ํ‘œ์ค€ ๊ณต์ œ)
    A set amount that taxpayers can subtract from income before income tax is applied.
    ์†Œ๋“์„ธ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ ์ „ ๊ณต์ œ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ ์ • ๊ธˆ์•ก์œผ๋กœ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์—์„œ ์†Œํญ ์ธ์ƒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Estate Tax (์ƒ์†์„ธ)
    A tax on inherited wealth. The new bill raises the exemption limit significantly.
    ์ƒ์† ์ž์‚ฐ์— ๋ถ€๊ณผ๋˜๋Š” ์„ธ๊ธˆ. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฐœ์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋ฉด์„ธ ํ•œ๋„๊ฐ€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋Š˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • SALT (State and Local Tax) Deduction Cap (์ง€๋ฐฉ์„ธ ๊ณต์ œ ์ƒํ•œ)
    Limits on how much state and local tax can be deductedโ€”controversial for high-tax states.
    ๊ณ ์„ธ์œจ ์ฃผ์—์„œ์˜ ์„ธ๊ธˆ ๊ณต์ œ๋ฅผ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ์น˜๋กœ, ๊ณ ์†Œ๋“์ธต์— ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์กฐํ•ญ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)
    A federal program providing food-purchasing assistance to low-income individuals.
    ์ €์†Œ๋“์ธต์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ํ’ˆ ์ง€์›์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๋ณต์ง€ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ. ์•ฝ 2,670์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์‚ญ๊ฐ์ด ์˜ˆ์ •๋ผ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Trump Account (ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๊ณ„์ขŒ)
    A proposed $1,000 account for newborns, seen as a symbolic gesture rather than a structural policy.
    ์‹ ์ƒ์•„์—๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง€๋Š” $1,000 ์ง€์›๊ธˆ. ์ƒ์ง•์  ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ•ด ์‹ค์งˆ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ์˜๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

Green energy took a direct hit. The repeal of EV and solar credits could stall progress toward a sustainable economy. Markets responded fastโ€”solar stocks plunged, and clean tech investors are bracing for policy whiplash.

์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์ •์ฑ…์€ ์ง๊ฒฉํƒ„์„ ๋งž์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๊ธฐ์ฐจยทํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ ์„ธ์ œ ํ˜œํƒ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋ฉฐ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋กœ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์ด ์ •์ฒด๋  ์œ„๊ธฐ์— ๋†“์˜€์ฃ . ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘ ๊ด€๋ จ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ธ‰๋ฝํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‹œ์žฅ๋„ ์ฆ‰๊ฐ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This also marks a rollback of key provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA, 2022), which had directed $369 billion (2022, GIIA*) toward clean energy. Experts warn that undoing these incentives not only hurts climate targets, but also the U.S.โ€™s global competitiveness in energy transition.

์ด๋Š” 2022๋…„ IRA(์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๊ฐ์ถ•๋ฒ•)์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์กฐํ•ญ์„ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๋ฌด๋ ฅํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์กฐ์น˜์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹œ 3,690์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(2022, GIIA)๊ฐ€ ์ฒญ์ • ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ „ํ™˜์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฐฐ์ •๋์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์—๋„ ํƒ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ "Tax relief for the job creators"
์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์„ธ์ œ ๊ฐ๋ฉด
โ€œThis bill is about tax relief for the job creators, not government handouts.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ "Welfare state rollback"
๋ณต์ง€๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ํ•ด์ฒด
โ€œThis marks the most aggressive welfare state rollback in decades.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ "Debt bomb disguised as reform"
๊ฐœํ˜์œผ๋กœ ์œ„์žฅํ•œ ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ํญํƒ„
โ€œDonโ€™t be fooledโ€”this is a debt bomb disguised as reform.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ "Trickle-down dรฉjร  vu"
๋˜ํ’€์ด๋˜๋Š” ๋‚™์ˆ˜ํšจ๊ณผ
โ€œWeโ€™re reliving the same trickle-down economics from the โ€™80sโ€”with worse consequences.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ "Budget as ideology"
์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ด๋… ์‹คํ˜„
โ€œThis isnโ€™t fiscal policyโ€”itโ€™s ideology in spreadsheet form.โ€

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
Mainstream media like NYT and The Washington Post critique the bill as regressive and unsustainable, while conservative think tanks applaud its โ€œmarket discipline.โ€ Online forums reflect generational dividesโ€”Boomers welcome tax relief, while Gen Z mourns student loan cuts.

๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์ฆˆ, ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ดํฌ์ŠคํŠธ ๋“ฑ ์ฃผ์š” ๋งค์ฒด๋Š” ์ด ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ํ›„์ง„์ ์ด๊ณ , ์ง€์† ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋น„ํŒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์‹ฑํฌํƒฑํฌ๋Š” โ€˜์‹œ์žฅ ๊ทœ์œจ์˜ ํšŒ๋ณตโ€™์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ ํ™˜์˜ํ•˜์ฃ . ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์„ธ๋Œ€ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”Boomer ์„ธ๋Œ€๋Š” ๊ฐ์„ธ์— ํ™˜ํ˜ธํ•˜๊ณ , Z์„ธ๋Œ€๋Š” ํ•™์ž๊ธˆ ์ง€์› ์ถ•์†Œ์— ์‹ค๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea
Coverage in Korea has focused more on the political dynamics of the U.S., analyzing how the rollback of welfare and climate policy might reshape global ESG standards and trade diplomacy. Think tanks warn it could embolden deregulation movements in Asia.

ํ•œ๊ตญ ์–ธ๋ก ์€ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ ๋‚ด์šฉ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ •์น˜์  ์ง€ํ˜• ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ณต์ง€์™€ ๊ธฐํ›„ ์ •์ฑ… ํ›„ํ‡ด๊ฐ€ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ESG ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ณผ ํ†ต์ƒ์™ธ๊ต ์ „๋žต์— ๋ฏธ์น  ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์‹œ์•„์—์„œ๋„ ๊ทœ์ œ ์™„ํ™” ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์— ํž˜์ด ์‹ค๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ง€์ ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

When a budget becomes a political weapon, it doesnโ€™t just shape the economyโ€”it redraws the boundaries of social safety net choosing who belongs and who gets left behind.

์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์ด ์ •์น˜์˜ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ˆซ์ž ์‹ธ์›€์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์‚ฌํšŒ ์•ˆ์ „๋ง์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ธ‹๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ํ–‰์œ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… August 13, 1981 โ€“ Reagan signs the Economic Recovery Tax Act
Ronald Reaganโ€™s landmark tax cut bill, seen as the birth of modern trickle-down economics.

๐Ÿ“… 1981๋…„ 8์›” 13์ผ โ€“ ๊ฒฝ์ œํšŒ๋ณต์„ธ๋ฒ•(ERTA) ์„œ๋ช…
๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์„œ๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ, ํ˜„๋Œ€์‹ ๋‚™์ˆ˜ํšจ๊ณผ ๋‹ด๋ก ์˜ ์‹œ๋ฐœ์ ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  1. โ€œHouse Passes Trump Tax Planโ€ (The Washington Post, 2025)

  2. โ€œ$4 Trillion Cost of Reformโ€ (The New York Times, 2025)

  3. โ€œSolar Sector Braces for Blowโ€ (Bloomberg, 2025)

  4. โ€œTrump Accounts and Economic Ideologyโ€ (Vox, 2025)

  5. โ€œMedicaid Cuts Could Impact Millionsโ€ (KFF Health News, 2025)

  6. โ€œInflation Reduction Act Summaryโ€ (Congressional Research Service, 2023)

  7. โ€œTwo Years of the Inflation Reduction Actโ€ (GIIA, 2024)

  8. โ€œThe 1981 Reagan Tax Cutsโ€ (U.S. Treasury Historical Resources, 2023)

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