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346 points Kye | 1 comments | 25 Aug 25 17:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cheema33 ◴[25 Aug 25 18:13 UTC] 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 ◴[25 Aug 25 18:35 UTC] 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] ◴[25 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45017413[source]▶
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hdgvhicv ◴[25 Aug 25 18:52 UTC] 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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Latty ◴[25 Aug 25 19:00 UTC] No.45017609[source]▶
The post being replied to says "the tarrifs", clearly referring to the current set of tarrifs implemented by this admin, not the concept of tarrifs in general, otherwise they'd have just said "tarrifs".
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hdgvhicv ◴[25 Aug 25 20:12 UTC] No.45018420[source]▶
Sure. You can support these exact tarrifs and not support trump in general

If you have to be against everything Trump does to be against Trump that’s a problem, and you’d be a hypocrite (like Trump)

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1. stouset ◴[25 Aug 25 20:36 UTC] No.45018677[source]▶
That's not even what's being argued here.

What's being pointed out is the retcon that "the whole damn point of the tariffs" is to end rampant consumerism. It's clear that the grand^{n}parent poster is flailing about and desperately trying to find the comfort of some coherent and intentional narrative behind a set of inherently incoherent and unintentional actions.