“Well, they did sign up for it, actually. And this is what I campaigned on,” Trump said of the tariffs during an interview with ABC News that aired Tuesday.
And you can’t really argue with that.
“Well, they did sign up for it, actually. And this is what I campaigned on,” Trump said of the tariffs during an interview with ABC News that aired Tuesday.
And you can’t really argue with that.
He also said tariffs were a tax that other countries paid…so there may have been some confusion over what exactly they were agreeing to.
It doesn’t matter who pays the tariff. Anyone with half a brain knows that the cost will be passed down to the consumer either way.
Oops, I think we found the problem.
Yep. Less than half a brain and less than half a heart. Amd absolutely no self-awareness.
Socrates would chug a 20 ounce hemlock Mountain Dew just on principle after meeting an average American.
Pick one.
If you’re not informed and take Trump at his word, I can see how you might end up thinking the tariffs were a country-to-country transaction, like literally China paying the USA.
In that case you wouldn’t necessarily arrive at the conclusion that the cost has to be passed on, along the value chain.
But on the other hand I don’t have a good track record of estimating what uninformed people who don’t care to seek information think…
As a non-American it’s difficult to grasp how uninformed the average American voter is. It’s not that difficult to look up what tariffs really are.
It’s actually very difficult for them to look up what tariffs are, because they read below a 4th grade level and are functionally illiterate. Most explanations regarding tariffs that I have read seem to assume a European high school level of reading proficiency.
Pretty simple, they didn’t give it a second thought because there was never a first thought
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He said the economy would go up on day one, prices would go down and America would be in a golden age.
He said the economy was doing great in 2024 because people were predicting He would win the election, and then when the economy went down in 2025 he put all the blame on Biden.
I said this in 2016: he doesnt mean anything he says, he just says whatever he thinks in that moment will get him what he wants. He lies so frequently that you might as well just disregard everything he says because it doesnt have any basis in reality.
Idk why so many idiots keep harping on this when it doesn’t matter who actually gives the money to the government, it all ends up being borne by the end consumer. If china “paid” the tariffs to the government it would be exactly the same as if the importer did in terms of overall effect.