Why was a study needed for this? That's just how tarrifs work...
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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Because Magats and the GOP insist everyone else is eating the tariff costs.
And will still do so despite this study.
You can't reason someone out of an unreasonable position.
You can't use logic to get someone out of something they didn't use logic to get into.
That's what I said but I said it more eloquently.
Your creative and beautiful language astonishes me, and is by all measures more astute. Good for you.
The words just flow though my hands as they dance across the keys like I'm a conduit for some divine inspiration. I'm pretty amazing really.
Yes, yes. Your hands may be good for some things.
But they have never read studies.
Of course, if they had that would imply they read at all.
Published by no shit magazine first
Tariffs are just an extra tax. It might force some companies to lower their margins, but of course most of it falls to the consumer in increased prices.
No shit
- Sherlock
The real surprise, as someone who is not living in the US, is that people just seem to be able to pay the extra ?
I'm sure there must be people under extreme hardship, but it doesn't seem to be having any effect on the political dialog, or support for Trump?
Like he's totally fucked so many Primary Producers, but there's no outcry.
In America, every once in a while the people seem to vote based upon the economy. They, for a time, seem to acknowledge that the statistics may even be wrong, and that way too many people in the country live in abject poverty. Then, they elect a Republican, and they forget they ever gave half a shit about poor, working poor, or homeless people.
We are a deeply unserious country full of deeply unserious people.
Grass is green, water is wet, and retaliatory tariffs are fucking stupid.
I always thought that it would be funny for a country to add an additional tariff onto items that they sell as retaliation to Trump putting a tariff on them.
The study also says while the amaricans pay the tax at the same time the imports also drop.
Now I would also like to know what are the americans buying instead? Are they buying lower quality? Or higher prices elswhere? Are they no longer not buying those products at all, hence no replacements?