re: Can Those Of You Who Advocate Tariffs...

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You know why? Because I've asked probably 20 different posters to tell me which tariffs the American taxpayer pays over various threads and no one ever answers the question.

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Then there is no need to get rhetorical and ask questions that you already know. Just come out and say your thing and stop giving people mental exercises on questions that you really don’t even care to ask in the first place just go spew.

Were you alive between 2016-2020?

If so, did you know that Donald Trump was the actual President during this timeframe and he slapped hundreds of tariffs to other countries around the world and we actually had the lowest inflation in the past 40 years? In fact, America was making so much money off all of the tariffs that the Democrats would not even remove them because the tariffs were bringing in so much money.

Were you alive during any of Trump's first term? Were you in some sort of coma or did you leave the country during that time?

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Grok would like everyone to know that the OP is retarded:

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Grok said exactly what the OP said. The importer pays the tax, then passes along some percentage between 0 and 100 to the customer buying the product. That's a combination of B and C in the OP.

A tariff doesn't mean the price of the foreign product is more expensive. It could mean that wholesalers in the U.S. just won't buy any of it because it's cheaper to buy the American version.
New Iberia produces sugar cane. Countries near the equator can produce 2 crops instead of one due to the longer growing season and cheaper labor. So, how can La. sugar make a profit? The tariffs on foreign sugar convince the sugar markets of the U.S. to buy La. cane sugar.
Now, what would happen if the U.S. cut a deal with a S. American country: 'Hey, we'll go along with your policy re: 'x,y,z' if you get rid of the sugar tariff so we can sell to America.' In that case the New Iberia farmers would simply switch to another crop. Everything grows in that soil and they have plan B always ready for a new crop.

Nobody reads your bullshite!

Go educate yourself you ignorant moron

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wackatimesthree

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Very simply, sans tariffs, a trade deficit represents uncaptured tax revenue. At the same time, a large economy running a significant trade deficit mitigates economic risk of retaliation. So it becomes an issue of collecting uncaptured tax revenue.

Where tarifs encourage onshoring, domestic corporate tax and worker income tax revenue increases. The same holds for increased domestic production as negotiations drive international barriers down.

You dont understand tariffs. At All

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In the United States, tariffs are collected by Customs and Border Protection agent. That money goes into the Treasury

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Yang Zhou, an economist at Shanghai’s Fudan University, concluded in a study that Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods inflicted more than three times as much damage to the Chinese economy as they did to the U.S. economy.

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1) tariffs benefit the US economy
2) tariffs lessen the tax burden on its citizens

Lets say you buy a phone from China. It costs $900. With 100% tariff that goes to $1800. Youre absolutely going to look for an alternative. An American start-up pops up and makes a similar phone for $1200. You snap that baby right up

a) All $1200 of that stays and circulates within the US. So now theres more money floating around for gas, food, groceries, entertainment, etc. That $1200 now lowers the cost for many other items, because it allows for more supply, and more cash, less credit
b) With the China phone $900 goes to the Treasury, right off the bat. With DOGE, we see that a chunk of that heads overseas. Also, much of the original $900 heads to China. The lack of dollars available in the US makes every single good or service more expensive.

Thats why the money printer runs 24/7. Too much of our money is sent to and circulates in other economies. Not ours. So it is an actual way to punish the ignorant consumers for destroying their own economy

And guess what? They got you begging to undermine your own economy. Great job.

TL;DR.....
We, the American people are rewarded with lower taxes on our income which = mo money in our pockets as a result of the tariffs.

My 02c

I don’t believe any of these tarif enacted actions are permanent and I am not a degreed economist ( I did pass statistics barely in community college).

I have to trust in the program and find faith in this metric in leveling out the platform.

I do and will continue to do so.

This administration is doing wonders and shaking the bag up getting things back on a level playing field since Ford & Carter started all this crap.
Eggs are in the store and everyone can afford stop acting like this is the Castro sugar embargo. Strategic oil reserves are almost back where we need them to be.

Let’s see where all this lands in a year and judge the critical path matrix laid out.

That is all…