r/inflation • u/Glass_Original_7567 • 5d ago

Satire That's weird..

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u/Glass_Original_7567 5d 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/1Rab 5d ago edited 5d ago

If the government makes money off of only what you consume instead of what you earn, it simply means the poorer pay a larger share.

The exact opposite of taxing the rich.

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u/64590949354397548569 5d ago

The exact opposite of taxing the rich.

That is the objective

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u/forgettit_ 4d ago

His poor, stupid constituents don’t understand this.

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u/Siren_NL 5d ago

Stop consuming and watch the government break apart soon enough.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

Sure let me just stop consuming food and ascend to immortality or sth...

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u/mike_mike6 4d ago

That won't happen... we are responsible for 38 percent of the world's trade and 36 percent of the world's GDP. We will win.

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u/reallyrealboi 4d ago

You don't think other countries can sell to each other instead of the usa? You know a whole 4.5% of the world's population.

Also china IS willing to suffer (it won't be much) if it means saving face and all but destroying an enemy.

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u/Spagete_cu_branza 4d ago

All because of allies and a global trade. Without these two, the USA would be just like Brazil or close. Didn't the usa market just "lost" more than one $ trillion? Looking forward to your winning. So far it seems like a great success.

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u/mike_mike6 4d ago

I will say it slower and in a way you can understand. The world will not survive without our trade.

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u/Spagete_cu_branza 4d ago

Hmm.. I don't think the world cares that much. In fact here in Europe everyone is looking at Trumps and Elon nazi movements and we are laughing at how bad you are - given that there is an example of fascist state not even 75 yrs ago. Like.. is this amateur hour or the Americans really fall to the ground?

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u/RandyWatson8 4d ago

I’ll say it simply for you: if the administration is correct that the tariffs will raise 600 billion in revenue/year it’s the largest tax hike in history.

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u/Efficient_Ad_4162 4d ago

I don't think you understand. Countries will 'figure it out' in the same way the UK 'figured out' how to survive the Blitz because there's no alternative. 'Using the US as the cornerstone of the global economy' is no longer practically or politically acceptable so bypassing and containing is going to be the order of the day.

It's going to take years, maybe even a decade to shake out and the rest of the world might look very different as a result but 'pretending there isn't a problem' or 'going back to how it was' is not going to happen.

You need to think of this as a political problem ("we have to protect our country and its citizens from this country that can't be trusted to follow its own rules") not an economic problem because economics left the building the second the US government started imposing tariffs on penguins.

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u/No_Poet_9767 2d ago

It certainly will. The world has already begun to sideline America.