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... Isn't that. Like. The point of a tarrif?
What are they trying to distract us from? trump doing the nazis thing? the epstein thing? the invasions of other countries thing?
Maybe trump died and they're hiding it while they shove the refurbished chucky-cheese animatronic robots up his ass.
What are they trying to distract us from?
Five nights at Donny's
Duh
Was the methodology for the study "Step 1, open eyes. Step 2, look at reality as it exists. Step 3, Document results."
This is the methodology for most studies. Science is just trying to understand the observable world with measurements.
Of course Americans are paying for the tariffs. There's the possibility that sellers would eat the costs (by lowering prices proportionately to account for the tariffs), but that only happened 4% of the time.
I'm not especially surprised, but I did think it'd be even closer to 0% than it is.
Like Adam Savage said: The difference between science and screwing around is recording the results.
Fair point. I'm just saying it could be published in Well, Obviously Monthly.
If those poor Americans could think, they would be very upset.
Thank god they can't. Imagine they do something right accidentally for once.
Trump to Europe today/yesterday: Let me take Greenland or I'll tax my own population even harder!! Join my board of "peace" or my citizens are getting a tax increase! That will show you!
That . . . is how tarriffs work, yes.
I mean if there is enough room in the profit margin the producer could adjust the price to keep the cost the same.
I can't imagine why they would given the the way the tariffs are applied though.
But the orange man told me the exporting country would pay!
Thank you captain obvious. Why do we have to do studies into things everyone already knows, when Trump doesn't understand something and spreads bullshit? We know what tariffs are. Looking up the meaning of the word in a thesaurus I wouldn't call "research".
In other 'news', Sun to Rise in East Tomorrow, Pope Professes Catholicism, Bear Relieves Self in Wooded Area...
Film @ 11:00
I can see the Sun. I have no interest in the Pope. But where was that film of the bear having a shit? SHOW ME THE BEAR HAVING A SHIT, NOW!!
Also, did you know if an orange child rapist tries to distract everyone from the decades of child rape he did with his best mate Jeffery Epstein then most of the time it doesn't work? Isn't that weird...
So in the end, the tariffs really are just a sales tax paid by americans. I seem to recall that the average tax is about 20%, up from the 2.4% in the Biden term. So americans voted for a sales tax, and this evidence shows that they got it. Something like 20% tax on $4 trillion of imports would be about $800 million (so far) of taxes paid by americans so the orange buffoon can give some to Qatar, Argentina, Honduras and the tech bros. Congratulations american voters, you are successfully looting your own pockets.
https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs-trade-war/
The Trump tariffs amount to an average tax increase per US household of $1,100 in 2025 and $1,500 in 2026.
Thats how much my computer, I built the day after the election, went up in parts cost alone.
Not seriously, but probably pretty close. There is no way that the cost is that little per household.
Next thing they'll say Mexico didn't pay for the wall either.
Maybe even that the economy isn't actually doing that great and unemployment is increasing.
Or that USA doesn't really need Greenland for security.
It's like a smear campaign against Trump, as if he was lying all the time.
This is liberal propaganda, you can clearly tell because they use facts, and everybody know that facts have a strong liberal bias.
A serious reporter should report both sides equally!
/s
Next you're gonna tell me they weren't even EaTiNg ThE cAtS aNd DoGs Of ThE pEoPlE wHo LiVeD tHeRe either!
In other news, water is wet.
we spent a lot of money to figure out that this water, do be wet
No shit Sherlock..
We knew from the beginning that he never knew what a tariff even did. He just assumed in his hollow-out head that it meant he could threaten other countries. Then he went to demonstrate how little of intelligence he actually had and wouldn't you know, he makes everyone he supposedly "leads" suffer because of it.
Thats the most pointless study ever.
Confirming what we assume is not useless.
A tarrif is a tax paid by the purchaser, theres nothing to assume. This study is pointless.
Actually it's paid by the importer.
I'm amazed that they put scientists on this. A toddler could see these results coming. Well at least a European toddler. American toddlers are probably eating crayons with their parents.
Having specific data and studies is very important.
Good things money was spent studying... The definition of a tariff.
I love studies that are so unneeded.