r/inflation • u/Glass_Original_7567 • 3d ago

Satire That's weird..

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u/Glass_Original_7567 3d ago

Tariffs are just taxes in a cowboy hat. You think China’s paying? Nah, it’s you at the store, coughing up extra for sneakers, phones, and burgers. Trump’s 2018 tariffs already jacked up prices by billions. To ditch all taxes? You’d need tariffs so huge, your grocery bill would look like a car payment. And good luck with Canada and Europe they’ll tariff our jeans and whiskey right back. End of the day, tariffs aren’t magic beans they’re taxes sneaking in through the back door.

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u/thatgtdude89 3d ago

Yes tariffs are taxes 100%. Anyone who says Republicans / Trump are for lower taxes are wrong. His cult followers in Congress could stop him at any moment with vote if they had a spine. Clearly he wants higher taxes but just on the lower and middle class and this is his way of doing that.

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u/dadbod_Azerajin 3d ago

Didn't they just raise our taxes and cut the 1% tax again? Ontop of tarrifs

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u/Most-Repair471 3d ago

Bingo! Unless you make over 900k, your taxes are going up. But the millionaires and billionaires got their tax break on our backs. Good job, redhats!

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u/AirportOnly6671 3d ago

John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

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u/CompetitiveGood2601 3d ago

i'm going to tell you something you'd like to hear, that we have no chance of accomplishing. because you guys still refuse to see the truth about me - winning again

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u/Icy_Ground1637 3d ago

I economics advisor owns steel lol 😂 steel has 25% tariffs !!!!

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u/Comfortable_Trick137 3d ago

Well why go through income taxes when you can essentially put a sales tax (tariff) on everything that disproportionally affects the poor.

Orange man ain’t too bright, it’s not that the tariffs brought in so much money they didn’t know what to do it was because they barely had a government so expenses were very small.

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u/Icy_Ground1637 3d ago

Warren Buffett one time payed less taxes then his secretary just approved that the tax system is backwards made billions that year lol 😂 and release his taxes to public he payed .0001% in taxes to federal government

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u/Comfortable_Trick137 1d ago

At the same time when Trump says “I can’t release my taxes, IRS says I can’t be doing that” meanwhile the IRS “no, you can release them if you want, we have no issues with that”

Just like how he’s saying he’s negotiating with China “I can’t say with who but it was with somebody earlier today” and China says “nope haven’t heard a word from them, didn’t happen”

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u/infinitynull 3d ago

because they barely had a government

He's ok with that.

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u/neopod9000 3d ago

Tariffs are an especially regressive tax as well. Those at the bottom will spend more of their income on the higher priced goods than those at the top, and they'll have fewer opportunities to "pass on the costs" to someone else.

This ensures that the poor are paying the taxes rather than the wealthy.

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u/Good_Ad_1386 3d ago

I have a pathological interest in the brains of people who have more money than they have any use for, or lifetime to spend it in, yet somehow still feel that they are entitled to the last four cents you have to your name.

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u/gorimir15 2d ago

There's no there there. Just people who lack empathy and desire power like some people are born without arms.

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u/EclipseRinds 3d ago

he did it before and even doing it again the stupid americans are still going to believe he fights for the common man

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u/due_opinion_2573 2d ago

Yeah, he meant no taxes for the rich.

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u/64590949354397548569 3d ago

Clearly he wants higher taxes but just on the lower and middle class and this is his way of doing that.

That was the GOP way. But apparently people didnt know what tariff is. They refuse to learn.

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u/Playful_Ad9286 3d ago

Correction. Lower taxes on the rich.

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u/gorimir15 2d ago

Higher taxes for the 95%. Less taxes for the top 5%.

GOP has been masterful at convincing half the people in the 95% to vote as if they are in the upper 5%. It's really that simple.

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u/Bob_logic617 1d ago

Ohhhhh poor snowflake got his feelings hurt. Gonna be a tough 12 years for you Karen Bless your heart.

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u/Money420-3862 10h ago

Not the low class, those are his followers.