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We should just start refering to any tarrifs now as "trump tax". (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world to c/justpost@lemmy.world

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I figure if we make this the standard and normalized way to refer to these tariffs, then it will really drive home the point to republican voters that THEY did this. THEY are getting hurt by their own party. Because I'm sure right now they're trying to find a way to blame obama, or biden, or hillary, or kamala, or whomever.

Fuck that.

Your goods now cost more because of trump tax. Plain and simple. It was an uneeded and nonbeneficial policy set by trump and no one else, in his obsession with hurting china.

Well I don't fully disagree that china needs to be dealt with, as they're becoming a global powerhouse that threatens to dominate the global ecconomy. I get that. But these tariffs are like trying to kill a house fly with a handgun. Even if you somehow hit the fly, you do more damage to your own home for no reason in the process.

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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Naming things after politicians is a time honoured tradition :3 though it's pretty rare for them to stick for a long time.. we only have like what? Obama care, gerrymandering... and boris bikes in the UK x3

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Norway has Brustadbu. Sylvia Brustad is responsible for allowing grocery stores below a certain size being open on Sundays in Norway, and now there are a lot of little stores built to that exact square footage.

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Metrage. Because, you know, it's a country with a normal measurement system

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I switch units as appropriate. In a thread starting with an American reference, where I'm writing in American English, I say "footage". When I actually need to measure something, I use metric.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 1 points 8 months ago

and now there are a lot of little stores built to that exact square footage.

Sounds about right haha :3

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Our social circle used to invoke Edwin Fullerton Borrie in reference to a Turd, simply because the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Borrie_Wetlands were adjacent to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Treatment_Plant