re: Someone explain the tariffs thing to me

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This dude is a moron

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You poor thing. I know you hate seeing your fairy tales busted.


You asked a question in the OP, question answered and you cry like a bitch.

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Some are punitive. Others are to bring back mfg. Long term is a subsidy to targeted industry at the expense of small biz.

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Again, you completely refuse to engage with the actual argument.

The reciprocal tariffs (those tariffs with a stated policy goal of forcing foreign countries to remove anti-US tariffs), by their very nature are designed to be short term. Once the foreign tariffs are removed, the US tariff is removed—that’s what the reciprocal part means.

We know that’s what they’re for because that has been their stated policy goal.

We have strong evidence that they are being applied in earnest and not as a subterfuge for long term tariffs because Trump has already suspended some announced tariffs (e.g., against Colombia, Mexico, and Canada). These suspended tariffs were punitive and not reciprocal, but they provide valuable evidence nonetheless because if Trump wanted tariffs for tariffs’ sake, then why suspend them?

It’s because they’re being used as a tool to influence foreign behavior and not as a means of general economic policy.

As for the tariffs that were in place from the first term that are not reciprocal tariffs, yes, they are ill-advised, as I’ve already said. But please, keep arguing with some imaginary poster instead of engaging with my posts.

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And we've had them for 7 years.

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you are ridiculous

What facts have I denied

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trade wars are inflationary

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So are any corporate taxes.
Would you prefer to tax domestic companies, or foreign companies?

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and you think thats a "win."

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Not necessarily. I think your assertion was false.

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So are any corporate taxes.

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True.

Which will most likely increase to close the income gap as Trumps tariffs are never going to replace income taxes like he thinks.

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Replace income taxes like he thinks?

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So he's lying.

And a lot of dumbasses believe him. Some in this very thread.

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You think Trump also actually expects Canada to become a state?

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No one does.

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So he's lying?

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Trolling. Something he's not doing with his tariff proposals.

Youre old enough to know the difference.

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What do you think is going to happen to prices for imported goods when you apply a tariff to them?

Will American citizens pay more, less, or the same for those goods?

When you find the correct answer among those choices, you will see the issue.

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Let's think about this. You say that tariffs only increase the prices for consumers in the country enacting them. Every country has tariffs on US goods.

So, there's only a few possibilities.

1. The world leaders know that tariffs only hurt their own people but they are using them anyways because they just want to hurt their own citizens
2. All the world leaders and their citizens have had tariffs against us for decades but none of them have yet realized they are only hurting themselves
3. There's a benefit to tariffs you stubbornly refuse to admit

Which one do you think is the most likely?