• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    My father in law was just bragging about how the treasury earned over $100B in tariffs so far as though it’s not just foreign companies passing that cost on to consumers.

    It’s literally just a $100B sales tax hike.

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      6 days ago

      It isn’t foreign companies. The AMERICAN company that imports the goods pays the tariff then passes that cost on to the American consumer. Tarrifs are a tax on the poor that are being used to give tax breaks to the rich.