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Apparently it’s difficult to grasp that price increases when thing get more expensive.
But why? Is it because of Biden? Please don’t explain it to me.
Why would Hillary’s emails do this?
It’s because of Hunter Biden’s laptop
But her emails!!
Buttery males
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Well, that’s exactly what Trump said would happen, so why would they think otherwise?
Your president is an idiot that is why your being charged more MAGAt.
You’re no longer his friend
And nothing of value was lost.
In other words, Brandon has no fucking idea what “tariff” means, except it must be good cuz Daddy says so.
I wish the US media would call tariffs “import taxes”, as that terminology seems to be generally better understood by the public.
Then they’d blame the liberals for adding a new tax when all Trump wants is tariffs.
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.
To be fair, Trump doesn’t even know how tariffs work properly.
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.
Isn’t that correct though?
Whenever someone does something, they need to pay tribute to Trump. So, it’s like tribute to him.
Just like how it works in Russia. Funny that.
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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)
Trump doesn’t know how fucking anything works.
You all are snowflakes but please explain this to me without triggering me
This is MY safe space and you can’t come in!
They STILL don’t get it? Everyone has been yelling about exactly what would happen. The news, social media, people protesting in the streets… even Fox News is critical of the Tariffs now. Journalists are bringing it up at White House press conferences and getting reaponses from the Press Secretary. This is not a secret. What sort of social bubble/echo chamber, do these people live in? Just fully bought in to the kool-aid. Useful idiots, the lot of them!
They have been conditioned to believe that the mainstream media is evil and constantly lies to them in order to facilitate the woke communist takeover and destruction of the USA.
So it would be an understatement to say they are working from a position of willful ignorance.
@kryptonianCodeMonkey @TheBat Very difficult for a cult member to deprogram themselves
These kind of people get all their news from FreedomEagle on facebook or some angry guy with a red face and oakleys on youtube because mainstream news is woke dei
People are incredibly stupid.
I think this is the right answer. I really don’t want to believe this is true, but I think it is.
I really don’t want it to be the answer either… But as I get older it’s the only thing that makes sense. And honestly I don’t think it’s limited to party lines (which has me rethinking some of my beliefs - what’s the point of supporting the party that aims for a social safety net if they’re too feckless to ever make it happen).
People are incredibly stupid and technology / politics isolates that stupidity and builds upon it to make mindless propaganda drones.
Social bubbles/echo chambers is exactly what has created this. Why did Musk buy X and Trump created his own social media?
Because Musk accidentally made an offer for Twitter and because Trump needed to take foreign bribes?
Now, why was Musk able to get the Saudis and others to help him bankroll that purchase?
So they have leverage over him
The Saudi’s liked the idea of being able to censor and/or dox people who are anti-Saudi. I think they got their money’s worth tbh…
To be fair, everyone has been yelling about a lot of things. I even notice a lot of stupid things said against Trump, which is frustrating, because imagine you’re hearing all those stupid things said and you’re not already committed to an anti-Trump ideology - then how will you believe when you hear the real anti-Trump things said?
Having half an ounce of curiosity, sense, and genuine interest in how the world works is a good start. What’s sad is that that is apparently asking too much.
Congress can take the power to set tariffs away from the president. But will they? Highly doubtful.
I hope we learn the lesson by the midterms. Unlikely, but possible.
I’d be surprised if midterms happen. I’d be even more surprised to not see massive and blatant meddling
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.
This becomes so obvious when the tariff is over 100%. The supplier is obviously not paying 125% of the sale price in taxes.
Just cultist things.
People still don’t know?! Lmao. How stupid can you be?
Think of how stupid the average person is. The. Realize half of people arw dumber then that
Half of them are too dumb to know that’s the mean, not the average.
Yes. I’m one of the ones too dumb to remember the distinction.
Ha fair, and now that I commented at all I’m probably due to say something silly in the next hour or so myself.
At least you know you’re dumb. That makes you smarter than any magat :)
Stop being mean. 😎😎😎
Give the late George Carlin his credit for this quote please.
Very. Very, very stupid.
there are people out there who voted for trump more than twice. Very stupid.
The PFP is giving wife beater vibes…
PFP? What does that stand for?
Profile Picture
Profile Fucking Picture?
PfP
The alternative would be pp, and I see a smol issue with that
Show me your pp is a common utterance on the Internet.
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Terroriffs am I right
Terror Riff sounds like something you’d hear in a doom metal album.
I’m impressed they are line iteming it for you.
It makes sense. It is clearly to show to dumbfucks who voted for this how their dumbfuck decisions cost them.
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.
I’m seeing more companies making it a “tariff surcharge” right before the tax line item.
When there tariffs change every time Trump goes into Twitter, i would expect them line itemized and with a timestamp.
Do your research.
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.
