• @[email protected]
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      The catch is that the ones who don’t understand always, ALWAYS think it’s the other country that pays the tariff. Every time.

      • @[email protected]
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        The dumb thing is that it doesn’t matter who pays the tariff, it still will get passed to the consumer. Consider a scenario where the government starts taxing Amazon $100 per order no matter what’s in it. If you buy a $10 item on Amazon, how are they going to pay the $100 tax on that? Amazon will just add a $100 tax fee to your order because they can’t keep running a business if that cost isn’t baked into the final price. It doesn’t matter who actually delivers money to the government, the tax gets paid by all parties involved.

        FYI, sales tax is already done this way. Sales tax is collected from businesses, not customers, but customers still pay sales tax because that’s just how economics works.

        • @[email protected]
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          Right, you and I get that, my point is that the people who are confused why their tariff-impacted goods cost more don’t get that. They think the other country pays it, full stop.

          • @[email protected]
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            2010 days ago

            I specifically chose a fee that was higher than the actual cost so dumbasses wouldn’t nitpick about greed and profits and yet you still somehow did it, so I’ll take the bait- please explain to me how a business can operate selling an item at $10 when they have $100 in guaranteed costs? Do you understand that this means they lose at least $90 on every transaction at that price? I get that companies are greedy and skim more off the top but this is pure idiocy to make this argument in this hypothetical.

      • magic_lobster_party
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        Even if that’s true the price would still increase. The exporting country would just charge extra to make up the difference. It’s not like they would just absorb the extra cost by pure goodwill for the oh so poor American people.

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    In other words, Brandon has no fucking idea what “tariff” means, except it must be good cuz Daddy says so.

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥OP
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        Someone on reddit (from where I stole this pic) said ‘Trump thinks tariffs are like tributes’ and I think that’s a perfect analysis of Trump’s mentality.

        • @[email protected]
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          Isn’t that correct though?

          Whenever someone does something, they need to pay tribute to Trump. So, it’s like tribute to him.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 days ago

          Tributes are still a thing. See Australia “buying” $300bn submarines from the US.

          So I can somewhat understand why Trump thought this is what tariffs are haha

          (My grumble, you’re not wrong)

    • @[email protected]
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      I wish the US media would call tariffs “import taxes”, as that terminology seems to be generally better understood by the public.

      • Edgarallenpwn
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        Yesterday I type “what” into my search engine and within the top 5 was “what is a tariff”. Import tax would make too much sense and people wouldn’t stand behind it if it was referred to as such.

        I get that tariff is the correct word and I understand what they are, but I am sure people like my dipshit cousins had no clue until a few days ago.

  • @[email protected]
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    Congress can take the power to set tariffs away from the president. But will they? Highly doubtful.

    • @[email protected]
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      69 days ago

      That guy was really patient while explaining to the magat. I’m disappointed in it being a short, and accept your apology 100%. At the same time I’d like to say thank you for posting it. Just sent it on to a family member.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 days ago

        The clip was quasi sanitized by that scummy channel by not mentioning the original creator. If cult-members would google him they would not watch the short: his name is Walter Masterson and he did some, genius IMO, parodies on MAGA-ralleys and gained access as a speaker to events from groups like Moms for Liberty, I believe.

        https://youtu.be/xwZT_nisxsQ

        I think he did way more videos over the years than shown on the channel and I wonder if he got censored.

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    What’s annoying and nobody seems to grasp is that even if the tax was on the foreign producer instead of the domestic consumer, the end result would be the same thing. They wouldn’t just eat the cost lol.

    • @[email protected]
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      129 days ago

      This becomes so obvious when the tariff is over 100%. The supplier is obviously not paying 125% of the sale price in taxes.

    • @[email protected]
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      2510 days ago

      When there tariffs change every time Trump goes into Twitter, i would expect them line itemized and with a timestamp.

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      4810 days ago

      I absolutely would. Make it clear that you aren’t just arbitrarily raising prices, that there is a cause, and exactly what that cause is so that people are pissed about it but at the right people.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m seeing more companies making it a “tariff surcharge” right before the tax line item.

    • @[email protected]
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      1310 days ago

      It makes sense. It is clearly to show to dumbfucks who voted for this how their dumbfuck decisions cost them.

  • @[email protected]
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    259 days ago

    What’s to explain? You got lied to by a liar who says he never lies, and you believed him.

    It’s like complaining that you didn’t realize the Leopard you elected would have spots, when he’s ALWAYS had spots.