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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

literally googling tariffs, brings you to a government page that lists tariffs, duties, and taxes under the same fucking definition.

How people like this DO NOT understand this shit, is beyond me. I can respect the humility in changing your position after being that stupid though, please, due your due diligence before mindlessly repeating the shit other people tell you, so you don't look stupid.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What, visit a website, read it, then comprehend it? What, like a book?! May as well ask them to make a phone call.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

yeah, otherwise you're a dumbass, and will look like one to everyone around you, unfortunately.

This is normal behavior. Ironically they would probably be more than willing to make a phone call.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Some people are just dumb. It doesn't help that our education system is designed to produce worker bees and not educated citizens.

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[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

And the people who voted for the orangetard will still be shafted by him and his mafia yet will continue to blame "obiden" for their economic woes. πŸ₯±

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I tell people that if they think other countries pay the tariffs they probably believe Mexico is paying for a wall

[–] ColonelMustard@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] loonsun@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Those cost more, and with the tariffs I doubt he can afford it

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I don't understand how they think this works

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[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

God damn! This is so simple a third grade student can understand it. The US government has no authority to tax foreign governments, citizens or businesses. They can only tax American citizens and businesses. So Trump puts a 50% tariff (Import Tax) on tea from England. The tea costs $5.00. The person or corporation who imports it, pays the $5.00 cost plus the $2.50 tariff. The US government gets the $2.50. In this case, Trump and Musk are probably just stealing it.

[–] Glent@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You forgot that the tea now costs $7.50 which is paid by the consumer. The tea company sure as shit isnt taking a 50% loss to sell tea now. So the american consumer pays the tariff. Shitler and goebbels pocket the 25% that comes out of an american workers paycheck.

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Some people genuinely are fucking dumber than a rock

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