re: Trump said he's prepared to raise tariffs as trade war with China heats up

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Right, which means the thread title is misleading.

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the thread title is objectively and unambiguously true, as raising tariffs necessarily mean raising taxes

i'll agree the title is a troll, because op clearly realized that many of y'all HATE HATE HATE hearing that

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Thanks for wasting everyone's time with your bullshite straw man for multiple pages.

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what strawman was that?

i'd argue that "taxes" necessarily implying "income taxes" is the biggest strawman here, easily

i have thought many times recently that it might be worth pointing out in various threads that it is american businesses and consumers that pay tariffs, because of the way trump cheerleaders put things. i can see now that this was way more true than i imagined