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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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Latty ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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ActorNightly ◴[] No.45021421[source]
Yall missing the point.

If your manager at work acted like a legit insane person, but said one true thing, you wouldn't be there saying that he/she is smart in that particular area.

If by some chance in hell tarrifs actually work, its due to pure luck, not due to any strategy. Which is what the original person I am replying to made it seem.

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1. hdgvhicv ◴[] No.45029761[source]
I believe the phrase is “even a broken clock is right twice a day”.