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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Trump wants to tax the world” ???

  That’s a horrible headline. It feeds the myth that tariffs are a tax on other countries. They aren’t. Tariffs are a name for a type of sales tax.

  The title needs to be “Trump wants to raise taxes on Americans.” Because that’s what a tariff is. It’s a tax on Americans- not anyone else.

  Fuck the media for not attempting to educate Americans.

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  • Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay, so what’s the other side? He decides not to tariff them if he gets a personal bribe or policy concession.

    That’s the Trump tax.

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Too bad that Trump listens to some rednecks on Twitter more than any economist out there.

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• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Trump wants to tax the world, as long as he’s exempt from it

  FTFY

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  as a revenue source to reduce domestic income taxes.

  But only for high income brackets.

  Otherwise he will increase your taxes again.

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  • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Any tariffs introduced by Trump are a de-facto tax on the citizens who buy the product that is under tariff. It is, by it’s nature, a regressive tax because higher earners do not pay more than the poor.

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Classic protectionism, if only he could read he could open a history book and see how that went there last time

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• BetaBlake@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh you mean the thing that led to the Great depression?

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