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cheema33 ◴[] No.45016963[source]
This needs to be repeated. Tariffs are a tax on ordinary citizens. Unlike regular taxes, tariffs are not progressive and therefore benefit the wealthy.

These are the sort of things the poor and middle class voted for. To make the rich, richer. And then turn around and complain that rich are getting richer and they are getting poorer.

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helloooooooo ◴[] No.45017286[source]
I don’t think anyone here has yet come to the realization that ending rampant consumerism is the whole damn point of the tariffs.
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ActorNightly[dead post] ◴[] No.45017413[source]
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hdgvhicv ◴[] No.45017529[source]
You can support some of trumps policies while thinking the insurrectionist peadophile should be behind bars

You can also support tarrifs in principal but not support the way they have been implemented (club not calpol, used as a political weapon or to extract mafia style favours)

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1. ActorNightly ◴[] No.45017658[source]
Yes, but that is not what is happening here.