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Apparently it’s difficult to grasp that price increases when thing get more expensive.
But why? Is it because of Biden? Please don’t explain it to me.
But her emails!!
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It’s because of Hunter Biden’s laptop
Why would Hillary’s emails do this?
The catch is that the ones who don’t understand always, ALWAYS think it’s the other country that pays the tariff. Every time.
The dumb thing is that it doesn’t matter who pays the tariff, it still will get passed to the consumer. Consider a scenario where the government starts taxing Amazon $100 per order no matter what’s in it. If you buy a $10 item on Amazon, how are they going to pay the $100 tax on that? Amazon will just add a $100 tax fee to your order because they can’t keep running a business if that cost isn’t baked into the final price. It doesn’t matter who actually delivers money to the government, the tax gets paid by all parties involved.
FYI, sales tax is already done this way. Sales tax is collected from businesses, not customers, but customers still pay sales tax because that’s just how economics works.
Right, you and I get that, my point is that the people who are confused why their tariff-impacted goods cost more don’t get that. They think the other country pays it, full stop.
Well, that’s exactly what Trump said would happen, so why would they think otherwise?
Even if that’s true the price would still increase. The exporting country would just charge extra to make up the difference. It’s not like they would just absorb the extra cost by pure goodwill for the oh so poor American people.
You all are snowflakes but please explain this to me without triggering me
This is MY safe space and you can’t come in!
Your president is an idiot that is why your being charged more MAGAt.
You’re no longer his friend
And nothing of value was lost.
If someone explained to him what tariffs are and how they work without mentioning the president at first, and how it will impact his spending money, there’s a chance he might finally admit to Trump making a mistake.
Almost everyone is in favor of the Affordable Care Act, but as soon as they hear “Obamacare” it’s suddenly evil.
Or like how
Burger KingA&W’s 1/3 pound burger never took off because Americans are too stupid to realize 1/3 is a bigger number than 1/4 so they go to McDonald’s instead.That wasn’t burger king, that was a&w.
Fixed, cheers
Maybe americans should start calling these “Trump Tax”
I’ve been trying to call them import taxes because more people should. It simplifies the explanation of what teriffs are greatly
I bet a coworker that the words “tariff” and “tax” are synonyms. Fucker refused to pay even after we looked it up - called Thesaurus.com “fake news”.
They should have really come with the 1/6863 tonne burger
No he wouldn’t.
The true Trump Derangement Syndrome
It’s worth a try. It’s better than insulting them and screming at them, which for sure isn’t going to work.
But I’m pretty certain you’re right though. It’s pretty much became a cult at this point.
You can’t logic someone out of a place they didn’t logic themselves into, but they got to that place for reasons, just not logical ones. If you can figure out the underlying drivers for their position, it’s possible (although still really difficult) to address those underlying needs in a way that enables the person to loosen up on the unreasonable position.
Not sure that approach can get traction over the internet, though. Discussions on social media are more for the lurkers than for any chance of the posters changing each other’s minds.
Oh yeah forget about trying to convince people like him over the internet and social media. In person it might be different.
Yeah I do it with about the same faith as I do the lottery.
Although I never buy a lottery ticket because the chances are so low, but I do argue idiots, even though the chances of breaking through are probably lower.
No, initial reaction would probably be that “you’re wrong”, and the importer is trying to stiff him and/or is a Biden’s supporter trying to make Trump look bad or some other shit. After some time, he might come around, but the principle of a cult is no matter what fact and evidence you provide, they will dismiss them and refuse to change their minds.
You’re probably right, sadly.
Doubtful.
“Not muh prezdent”
People still don’t know?! Lmao. How stupid can you be?
Very. Very, very stupid.
there are people out there who voted for trump more than twice. Very stupid.
Think of how stupid the average person is. The. Realize half of people arw dumber then that
Give the late George Carlin his credit for this quote please.
Half of them are too dumb to know that’s the mean, not the average.
Stop being mean. 😎😎😎
Yes. I’m one of the ones too dumb to remember the distinction.
At least you know you’re dumb. That makes you smarter than any magat :)
Ha fair, and now that I commented at all I’m probably due to say something silly in the next hour or so myself.
PLEASE be Nice to Him! He THOUGHT Electing Trump would mean he could PUNCH TRANS KIDS in Public and Run Over Immigrant Children! He DIDNT think it would Hurt HIS Wallet! He’s WHITE For Pete’s Sake! Show some SYMPATHY!
Where “are” your QUOTATION MARKS? Breaking grammar RULES is “punishable” and NOT GOOD!
Sooo, it’s like this “Eat a bag of dicks”, right?… I’m confused, I think.
If he’s 100% Trump, the Trump tariff is $100. Simple.
Tell him to buy $23 worth of $TRUMP coin or he’ll be deported for ripping off his lord and saviour.
I am kind of surprised he has not pumped it a few more times. For a while I was almost thinking of buying in a bit. Not because I think it is innovative or anything, but because I was expecting him to pump it a few times as he is bribed.
Trumpcoin isn’t for you or me, so he doesn’t need to pump it. It’s for untraceable bribery and corruption. Say a foreign national wants something from Trump (an executive order, a crackdown on a competitor, the lifting of a crackdown, whatever). They need only make a large, anonymous Trumpcoin purchase and then discretely let Trump know about it.
Well, first he had to disband the team of prosecutors who targeted cryptocurrency crimes, from today he can safely pump it again
This is 39% of the voting population folks…
Big sad. :(
What’s to explain? You got lied to by a liar who says he never lies, and you believed him.
It’s like complaining that you didn’t realize the Leopard you elected would have spots, when he’s ALWAYS had spots.
Do your research.
2d means lots of times for replies, I want to see what he said when it was explained to him.
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Or it wasn’t real.
I struggle to believe someone could be this disconnected from reality. Honestly.
One third of Americans, about 100 million people, are in fact this stupid.
This is (one of) the real horror(s) of fascism:
It forms a cult of personality.
As in, a literal cult, a ‘Dear Leader can do no wrong’, honest to god, utterly delusional cult.
Just go check all the polls of people who still specifically support Trump’s tariff policy.
Combine that with the fact that 20% of the US is functionally illiterate (reading/writing skills of a 2nd grader or worse), and the average literacy level is between a 5th and 6th grader, meaning that next 30% of people are… just barely out of elementary school when it comes to literacy.
Those numbers are for US adults 18 or older btw.
As other commenters have mentioned, I too have multiple family members I have had to go no contact with in the last few years because they are in the MAGA cult, are incredibly aggressive, delusional, manipulativr, etc.
In my case specifically, my Dad fell all the way down the QAnon rabbit hole, and the last time I was with him in person, he was showing me how he manufactures ghost guns (no serial numbers) in his garage with some vintage machining tools.
In a sane world he would be on a red flag list as a potential domestic terrorist.
In the actual world he is just a retiree with a hobby.
I too struggle to believe it is possible, but I also know from direct observation that it is not only real but widespread.
This is Poe’s Law that you’re running into, where parodies of extreme views become indistinguishable from the real thing because the real thing is so ridiculous. So even if this specific example was fabricated by some random internet person, the same thought process works for millions of Americans.
Sheeeit. That’s why we’re here.
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Either you’re ignorant or a troll or a bot. I encounter these types of people daily.
Because it’s very hard to search online for “how tariffs work”. This is why Trump got elected, because idiots like this who have no capacity to fact check things voted for him, no questions asked.
To make answer short, YOU pay the tariffs dummy. You do!
DID YOU DO YOUR RESEARCH?
I DID MY RESEARCH.
GO DO YOUR RESEARCH.
OH MY RESEARCH IS BETTER THAN YOUR RESEARCH THAT’S WHY.
It’s not even because it’s hard to search, they lack the capacity to think critically. Even if they were smart enough to do a google search on the workings of tariffs, they still wouldn’t do it. They take everything they see on their feed and Newsmax at face value.
Oh no not YOUR president! 🙄
…for millenia there has been an axiom, a truism, if you will, that has persisted among the many, and applied to very few…“you cannot fix stupid”
Tariffs are paid by the company that imports foreign-made goods to the government. To make up for that expense, they charge the retailer the same amount; and to make up for that expense, the retailer charges the customer the same (or a higher) amount added to the item’s price. (at least as I understand it)
If OOP is “100% Trump!”, they should be very, extremely happy about paying into THEIR President’s pockets.
You’re right, except for how early in the process the profiteering starts.
Every single company involved will exploit the situation to add extra on top of the tariffs themselves.
Because the already broken (in the 80s if not earlier and progressively worse ever since) system not only allows them to, but ENCOURAGES fleecing people as much as possible to maximize profits for shareholders.
