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Post Title: Trump announces 30% tariffs on Mexico, EU starting August 1st
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agk927 Moderate Conservative -189 points 17 hours ago
It’ll make us some money. I see no issue here
akbuilderthrowaway Heinlein 415 points 16 hours ago
… you do realize Americans pay the tax, right? This is a consumption tax on American for foreign goods. Other nations are not paying this tax. You are. This is a tax on Americans.
agk927 Moderate Conservative -280 points 16 hours ago
He wouldn’t do it if it hurt us. Keep listening to the misinformation. There’s 2 sides to every story
akbuilderthrowaway Heinlein 321 points 16 hours ago
Misinformation? Dude. Seriously. Open your fucking eyes. Importers aren’t going to eat 25+% taxes out of the goodness of their hearts. It’s going to get passed on to consumers.
I can call a spade a spade. Trump’s tariff policy is awful. You can’t, on one hand, spout out rhetoric about lowering taxes and then pull shit like this.
i work for an importer. My family are all college educated. I still have to explain this to people who have business degrees who should know better. The single most important thing I do at work is make sure the taxes and tariffs are paid before the shipping container gets released from the ship.
I often think the world does not need more people with MBA’s.
Is there any substantial decline in the imports in the last 6 months?
not the same person but i work in TLSC - variously, yes, in general people are doing feast and famine to import when tariffs get paused, and don’t when they’re not
Is it possible that the will they won’t they tariff policy is actually increasing imports, since companies now have to hold more inventory to cover for it?
Not in the wine importing business I work at. We are seeing across the board reductions and changes in drinking habits
Letting Trump run the country into the ground is the best way to get rid of the MAGAzis.
No, because they’ll immediately vote conservative the next chance they get anyway.
No amount of suffering will cure the vast majority of these people. They will be licking the boot even as it crushes their skull in their final moments.
So sick of conservatives breaking shit like children and then demanding liberals clean it up.
So sick of conservatives breaking shit like children and then demanding liberals clean it up.
So sick of the stupids breaking shit like children and then demanding normal people clean it up.
Ok there Obama anger translator. lol
Yeah, no. My anger at Obama is that he didn’t convict anyone for the 2008 financial crisis and he killed the used car market. Don’t reason in advance of your data.
Guy, that was based on a Jordan and Peele skit.
Ultimately this a political stunt from both major political parties, MAGA in the US started tariffing Canada, and at that time essentially only effected American citizens, then Canada’s liberals done did the exact same thing in “retaliation” only effecting Canadians.
Both sides are to blame for this mockery.
