Was he actually thinking that those $450 were just gifted by the exporter?
How does this benefit me?
Is the satisfaction of making dear leader and his rich friends richer not enough for you?
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I bet he didn't even say thank you for the opportunity to ~~führer~~ further line their pockets
Hahaha thank you for the laugh and not only with the golden call back to Zelenskyy!
There are plenty of benefits - dei is illegal, trans folks aren’t able to compete in women’s sports, brown people are afraid to go outside. Does that supersede $450? You tell me.
Bro... dear leader is sending everyone $2000 for how rich the tariffs made him, and he doesn't even need congressional approval to do so.. much like blowing up random boats in international waters and attempting to steal Greenland.
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This is literally how tariffs work. They don’t benefit you. They fuck you in your anus. We tried to tell you.
It's all those woke economists' fault (and literally anyone else who understands anything)!
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For fairness here, tarrifs can be beneficial and useful when specifically targeted at industries which you can compete globally in with commensurate subsidies. In other words, universal tarrifs is the same as shooting your own nuts off, but targeted tarrifs can be helpful in growing specific industries you can grow.
All tarrifs are paid by the population of the country doing the tarrifing, but when it's well thought out and specifically targeted it can be a good thing.
Lastly, for clarity, fuck trump, what he's doing is incredibly stupid and will only hurt US citizens.
It's also incredibly stupid that they tariff components.
If a US company wants to build a dishwasher then they're probably going to have to buy some parts from China, because the US lacks vertical integration, except they're not going to because those parts are also tariffed. So you might as well just make the dishwasher in China and pay a single tariff on the whole thing.
Is it possible that the Trump administration is just made up of idiots?
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Also: I think it would make more sense for those targeted tariffs to be one of the last steps in creating a home-grown industry, and not one of the first. Rather than slapping down some tariffs and hoping that your captains of industry will build the infrastructure to meet the demand, you'd instead want to subsidize the industry first, and only put the tariffs in place to curb imports once domestic production has ramped up. By applying the tariffs first, you're just taxing your population with no incentive for change, because the demand doesn't disappear while waiting for the industry to be built, and the people who might do the building can just pass the import costs on to the consumer anyhow.
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At first you think he may just be naive of how tarrifs work. Which is still true, but it doesn't explicitly label him as maga.
Then he says this....
How does this benefit me?
And there it is. The selfish attitude that tells me he voted for this exact outcome without a clue what that outcome actually was. Just voted for his team, and didn't bother with the details. Oh well. Have the day you voted for.
Not only that but imagine if he was right and the seller paid the tariff, does he honestly think they would just eat the loss?
He thinks mexico paid for the wall.
He thinks the wall was fully built years ago in trumps first term.
He believes trump tells the truth.
In other words, he did "his own research", which consisted of believing his own biases, and confirming them in an echo chamber.
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How does this benefit me?
...and how would it have benefited you, if the seller had to pay it? They would either increase the price for you or never have made the deal.
Even the thing you expected would have been stupid for you 🤣
They probaly thought the seller would pay without raising the price. A lot of these folks don't know how tariffs work in the first place and when the orange one said it would punish other countries for being unfair to the US they assumed the seller would recognize the error of their ways and foot the bill while keeping the price the same to stay competitive.
Folks that make complaints like this on social media don't seem prone to thinking the consequences of an action through...
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The inability to critically think is the first and foremost requirement to be an American conservative.
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The way it is supposed to work is that they would buy the part from a local manufacturer, thus protecting that manufacturer from foreign competitors. Problem is we got rid of most of our manufacturing in order to break unions and for shareholders to get an extra .0000001% out of their investment. So tariffs now just hurt us.
They didn't work previously either.
In fact income tax was created specifically because tariffs don’t work.
Okay so pretend they are right, pretend that the Spanish manufacturer pays the tariff:
Do you think they will still sell it at the same price if they had to pay $450? They'd just charge you more to cover their fees, lmfao.
Edit: Oh someone here already commented this, oops
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I don't think I could find a Spanish person, except perhaps a child, who didn't understand the concept of an import tax. How are Americans so goddamn stupid that they don't understand something that simple.
It's a tax, in the United States, imposed by the president of the United States, why the fuck would a Spanish company pay it?
Because that's what the idiot president told his idiot voters and they were too dumb to know he was wrong. They think he's smart because he has money
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The problem with people like this is NOT the fact that they were dumb enough to believe Trump's lies about tariffs.
The real problem is them crying more about having to pay the tariffs themselves than about having been blatantly lied to.
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What you mad at lil bro? that's called making america great again! Next time you order your equipment from USA 🏈🦅
"But they don't make it here, everything is offshored."
"Oh, well, should have thought of that first."
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Ah yes, America is finally finding out what a Tarrif actually is, in real time.
The best thing is that even if the tax was paid by the exporter they would just raise the price of their product accordingly for the import region lol
Enjoy the tariffs idiot.
The fact that the distinction of who the fees actually get connected from matters so much to people is so crazy to me. It doesn't matter who the fees are collected from, you're paying them regardless. If the exporter pays them they will just raise the price you pay to cover the cost. It also amazes me that so many people who were in favor of tariffs somehow think they wouldn't raise prices even though that's literally the entire fucking point of tariffs. They raise the prices of foreign goods to give domestic goods that cost more an advantage.
That's a really big issue, tbh. People don't get how prices work. You see the same with promotions/sales. A lot of shops/companies will often put their products on sale for 25%, 50% or even more off. And people think they will actually save that amount of money. Instead of realizing that in most cases the sales price is the regular price, and the regular price is inflated by the sales price amount so that if the product is sold the seller still makes the same margins.
In a former job the company started expanding to Asia, and we got a sales guy from Singapore to represent us in Asia. He said that if we aren't selling with at least 60% rebate, we have no chance of selling stuff in Asia. So we created a new price list for Asia with all the prices tripled.
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Aside from everything else, apparently this guy doesn't understand how "Asking for a friend" is supposed to work.
How do I ask for a friend?
Asking for a friend.
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Surprise! You're being taxed. They use tariffs because you don't know what the word means
Let's just say for the sake of the argument that the exporter did have to pay taxes on the purchases. The exporter isn't going to pay $450 of of pocket. The purchaser is still going to have to pay the $450 taxes.
WE TRIED TO TELL YOU!
Knowing DHL, the actual import duty is about half that. The rest is a "brokerage fee" they are charging on top of the tariff. They will not provide an itemized invoice until after you pay. They will not answer any questions about it.
I just ate $34.80 in import fees for a sweater recently. It’s rough. The pig will swing soon.
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