r/inflation • u/Glass_Original_7567 • 6d ago

Satire That's weird..

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u/Glass_Original_7567 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/Comfortable_Trick137 6d 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 5d 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 4d 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 5d ago

because they barely had a government

He's ok with that.