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Americans say Trump has done more to raise prices than lower them by 2-to-1: New poll
(www.usatoday.com)
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Well his whole campaign was about tariffs AND lowering prices. The two don’t mix, America! This is not new news.
"Adding things make thing go up big? No, ugg, add thing make thing go down small" -the average tRUMP supporter
cHiNa wIlL pAy tHe tArIfFs. Also, tariffs are not taxes, bro!
They could mix if done in very specific ways, but there's no way in hell Trump could do that. I'm not even sure anyone could do that anymore.
What specific ways can adding tariffs lower prices? The entire concept involved raising the price of foreign goods so that more expensive local ones can compete. The net result is ALWAYS higher prices on those goods. Often to more than the expensive local one cost to begin with, as they raise their prices just under that of the tariff price
Basically very rarely you will get a situation wherein putting a tariff on specific foodstuffs will lower the price, but you also need to incentives to lower export as well. Like I said I don't even know if it's technically possible anymore since the last time I know of it working was back in the 1800s in South America.
Maybe not to the rest of us, but it is news to the MAGA crowd!
Well, his all of his campaigns were about assuring his voters that nothing going wrong with the country was there fault in any way and they wouldn't have to change their behavior at all to fix it. Tariffs was just something he fixated when he didn't know how to deliever.