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Was he actually thinking that those $450 were just gifted by the exporter?
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This is literally how tariffs work. They don’t benefit you. They fuck you in your anus. We tried to tell you.
It's all those woke economists' fault (and literally anyone else who understands anything)!
Oof, what an oxymoron 🤣
Wokenomics!
Thanks Obama!
If all the SMART people weren’t so WOKE then MAYBE I’d listen to them and we’d get some ACTUAL WORK done around here!!!
(Sorry to steal your comment, BigMacHole)
For fairness here, tarrifs can be beneficial and useful when specifically targeted at industries which you can compete globally in with commensurate subsidies. In other words, universal tarrifs is the same as shooting your own nuts off, but targeted tarrifs can be helpful in growing specific industries you can grow.
All tarrifs are paid by the population of the country doing the tarrifing, but when it's well thought out and specifically targeted it can be a good thing.
Lastly, for clarity, fuck trump, what he's doing is incredibly stupid and will only hurt US citizens.
It's also incredibly stupid that they tariff components.
If a US company wants to build a dishwasher then they're probably going to have to buy some parts from China, because the US lacks vertical integration, except they're not going to because those parts are also tariffed. So you might as well just make the dishwasher in China and pay a single tariff on the whole thing.
Is it possible that the Trump administration is just made up of idiots?
Possible? Donald Jesus Trump or his fapostles idiots? How could it be???
!commentmitosis@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Possible? Donald Jesus Trump or his fapostles idiots? How could it be???
Also: I think it would make more sense for those targeted tariffs to be one of the last steps in creating a home-grown industry, and not one of the first. Rather than slapping down some tariffs and hoping that your captains of industry will build the infrastructure to meet the demand, you'd instead want to subsidize the industry first, and only put the tariffs in place to curb imports once domestic production has ramped up. By applying the tariffs first, you're just taxing your population with no incentive for change, because the demand doesn't disappear while waiting for the industry to be built, and the people who might do the building can just pass the import costs on to the consumer anyhow.
Don't forget the damage done by being so wildly inconsistent in maintaining the policy. MAYBE someone would invest in building production to take advantage of the tariff protections. However when you cancel the tariffs a month later, then reinstate them, then lower them, raise them, cancel them, and renew them again like a child mashing buttons, nobody will EVER invest in national production because they can't expect those tariffs to still be there when the factories are ready. Trump would have to actively try to do more economic damage than he has already.
Now you're thinking with tarrifs!
Aren't taxes supposed to be paid according to the "tax incidence", which depends on the elasticity of supply and demand? (Basically, how easy it is for respectively the seller and the buyer to find alternatives?) I guess that since a lot of products dont have domestic alternatives, US buyers have few alternatives, whereas foreign sellers have many (they dont necessarily have to sell to the US). As a result, yes, the US buyer will be paying most of the tariffs?
"But...I didn't think it would be my anus!"
Leopards at my anus.
Sound like a Chuck Tingle novel.
‘Fucked in the Ass by Tariffd’
Seen that one
If they fucked me in the I'd at least have a good time. They fuck me in the wallet, which hurts a lot and not in a sexy way.
wish they did 😔
Sadly there are tariffs on those toys too. :(
You have to pay extra to get fucked.
😔
Let them do their own research now.