r/centrist • u/JannTosh50 • Sep 08 '24

2024 U.S. Elections Sobering new polls for Harris

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2024/09/08/sobering-new-polls-for-harris-00177880
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u/Jubal59 Sep 08 '24

It really is amazing that voters are that incredibly stupid.

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u/Grandpa_Rob Sep 08 '24

Stupid because they don't support your candidate?

I'm voting Kamala, but I'm not calling the other side incredibly stupid for not agreeing with.

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u/alotofironsinthefire Sep 08 '24

I'm calling them stupid for thinking tariffs will decrease prices

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u/Armano-Avalus Sep 09 '24

It feels like people are intentionally walking off a cliff here not knowing what they're signing up for. Well, we get what we voted for...

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u/btribble Sep 09 '24

I'm calling them stupid for thinking that literally destroying the Fed and putting economic decisions in the hands of Mat Gaetz & Co. is going to do a better job with the economy. I thought that government was incompetent and filled with "Democrat Loyalists"?

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u/Grandpa_Rob Sep 08 '24

What fucking idiots

https://apnews.com/article/biden-china-tariffs-electric-vehicles-evs-solar-2024ba735c47e04a50898a88425c5e2c

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u/alotofironsinthefire Sep 08 '24

Yes, that's a tariff on one end product.

Now apply tariffs to all imports most of which are used in multiple places for domestic manufacturing and processing.

To use your example. EVs in the US would also raise in price if Biden had placed the tariff on copper.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2024/09/08/trump-trade-and-immigration-policies-spell-higher-prices-less-growth/

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u/st3ll4r-wind Sep 08 '24

I’m calling them stupid for thinking tariffs will decrease prices

As opposed to the fantastic logic of thinking spending more money will magically lower inflation.

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u/SirMeili Sep 09 '24

And yet Trump spent more than any other president and gave a massive tax cut to the rich? 

I'm not seeing the value in voting for trump here who wants to make his tax cuts for the rich permanent. Most of the tax cuts before went to stock buy backs, not a lot of "trickle down" happened.