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Say it with me: Tariffs. Are. Taxes.
He's raising your taxes.
aren't they literally just import taxes?
A consumption tax. A tax that hits the pocketbooks of the poorer harder and the wealthy lighter.
Worse, it's taxes on poor people. Rich people don't buy anything with their money, so they're spared, but poor people are spending the money on things, and things are imported.
Rich people buy things, but not at the rate that lower income people do. A CEO who makes 1000x as much as you isn't buying 1000x as many pairs of pants, for instance. This is why sales taxes are considered regressive.
Oh, and domestic industrial infrastructure spending is way, way down, because nobody knows when Trump's going to throw the next grenade into the economy, so nobody is committing to investments.
I don't get it... why don't they just make steel from scratch? Lazy manufacturers importing Chinese materials....
Canada is the largest source (just bumped to 35% tariff), followed closely by Brazil (50%). China doesn't ship much raw steel to the US to because it's terrible steel.
They should be smelting iron in their backyards!
Particularly one small orange dick, imported directly into his mouth
I'll just buy straight from the source using AliExpress. Thank you Americans. You have made my life cheaper.
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They just turn around and complain more about how much we import as being the problem, not the fact that trump’s tariffs are costing them. Not that sweeping, knee-jerk tariffs with absolutely no plan to increase US industries to compensate for supply issues is the real problem.
Almost everything we do requires imports at some level. If it's not direct ingredients, the machines we use need parts, or them themselves come in.
If we wanted to solve it in a sustainable way, take all those fucking tax cuts for the rich, make them pay taxes and start grants for entrepreneurs to start manufacturing companies until we can make metal mesh and plastic shit here again for pennies.
Make sure grants are only issued to things that are in need and that they have buyers lined up.
but. the economy is BOOMING. 💪🇺🇸💪🇺🇸💪 🇺🇸 Talking head said so
Well, if it isn't the consequences of his actions. He should love America more and source those materials locally.
Trump supporters are in the find out phase. Unfortunately so are the rest of us
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It may be put together in America. It sure isn't sourced in America
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