re: Trump tariffs are paid by Americans according to Bessent

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If prices aren’t changing for consumers but foreign companies are now paying money to the America through tariffs for the privilege of access to American markets, how is that bad for America or Americans?

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Then its just another tax. If you like taxes, then you should love tariffs.

I supposed its too much to ask a Republican administration to focus on cuts instead of "tax and spend." Thats what liberals do.

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According to the Tax Foundation, they estimate around $1,200 per household in increased taxes this year climbing to around $1,600 per household next year.

Largest tax increase since 1993.

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A dollar nore a day is the greates tax hike ever

Morons

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A dollar nore a day is the greates tax hike ever

Morons

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For sure the Tax Foundation are the morons and you are the expert.

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Google is your friend. And in your case, it's probably your only friend.

Tax Foundation

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imports would rise ...

tariffs would raise ...

responses, would rise ...

rate would rise ...

would reduce the total revenue ...

would reduce market income ...

would be smaller ...

would affect more than $500 billion ...

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I would say your Tax Foundation article is speculative, but the thing sort of speaks for itself.

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No as usually youre obfuscating with fringe bullshite.

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How

many

of

those

US

cars/trucks

were

sold

in the EU

or Japan

last

year

????

There’s a meltdown because people understand the math but they’re told 1+1=0 in some sort of economic gas lighting.

People might not like it but we’re a global economy for the most part. We also might not like the fact that we simply moved away from a manufacturing economy many decades ago. Our labor laws and costs are obnoxious relative to other counties and we simple can’t compete on fbsf same level ground.
It might make sense for larger, more expensive items but otherwise, we have to let foreign low wage take over.

Tariffs are a tax. Taxes discourage behavior. In this case, we’re trying to discourage buying foreign stuff. Why? That depends. We get mistreated trade wise and that’s a large part of it. We want to encourage American Made stuff. But that is a very complicated endeavor. That’s an expensive endeavor and it’s short lived when you consider that Trump only has @2 years of real power as president. Why invest for such a short period?

So it’s complicated but Americans are smart enough to know the math. Tax something and the cost usually goes up. We just don’t like being gas lighted

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We just don’t like being gas lighted

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MAGA evidently does.

Metal is getting stupid.

This is the dumb inverse argument the left and idiots make.

The desire for a company is to sell their product in the most lucrative market. Yes, they can pass it on to the consumer and their product will sit on the shelves. The receiver is gong to tell them they can keep it at that price because they cannot sell it at that price.

So they either eat the cost or take it back. The vast majority of low IQ Americans have no idea that the world runs on haggling. The market will determine the price, by need, wants and what people are willing to pay for an item.

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This is the dumb inverse argument the left and idiots make.

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Tariffs have always been a Democrat gift to labor unions.

"The left" has traditionally supported these anti market measures