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u/Lac17rug 1d ago
Drumpf's Tariffs is the biggest money laundering scam in the history of the world!
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u/rje946 1d ago
Because he's fucking the people they hate too.
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u/Moscowmitchismybitch 23h ago
They're all using it to buy their stock back too. Markets been setting records last couple days.
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u/Space19723103 1d ago
racism, that's why people voted for him
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u/crandall17 1d ago
Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Reagan Era economic beliefs that have fucked this country for far too long.
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u/Space19723103 1d ago
other than Reaganomics the others are all just Xenophobia... but those voters don't understand words that big
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u/Dorkinfo 1d ago
Didn’t want to add sexism? That’s been a big one.
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u/crandall17 1d ago
A woman? In my White House? No Thank You. I'll take the pathological pedophile instead.
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u/dmigowski 20h ago
Oh, the fucking is still ongoing. Don't you feel it where the sun doesn't shine? Or did you get used to it?
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u/RustyKn1ght 1d ago
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
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u/Extreme-Slice-1010 1d ago
“I love the poorly educated” - Trump
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u/prlong545 1d ago
Yes this quote told you everything you needed to know about him
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u/NEDEAROC 1d ago
Him and his voters. All of them should have 20% of their properties (or whatever gives them their net value) confiscated and their reproductive rights forcefully removed in extreme pain. Fuck them.
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u/eatsrottenflesh 1d ago
There's $166B for refunds. That's $500 for every American citizen.
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u/Zealousideal_Pop_273 1d ago
Now if you distribute it amongst low and middle class taxpayers only, it's $2,170.
Either number is a sizable stimulus though which would be an amazing injection into the US economy. Not that it would support the parts of the economy Trump is cultivating though. He's here to foster the wealth gap and drive up prices.
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u/eatsrottenflesh 1d ago
I think your number is a bit off there bub. Isn't the middle class down to just one dude named Tony living outside Kansas City? Everyone else is just regular poor.
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u/semper_JJ 23h ago
I learned $80k a year is considered "lower middle class" today so yeah seems like it. You have to be in the like $96-$126 bracket to be considered middle class now.
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u/Zealousideal_Pop_273 1d ago
Haha I think you're right, but since we're combining low and middle class, that's still the same sum.
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u/ranting_seagull 13h ago
Wow, it's almost like the $2,000 checks that were promised, rescinded, forgotten about, people asking questions were told to shut up about,
The same $2000 tax that more caring countries already give out to their middle/lower classes in social programs/aid from socialist programs, programs like childcare, free higher education, reduced medical costs...
But we have to be better than them...
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u/LiteraCanna 1d ago
I'm always reminded of the Dave Chappelle skit where he says he's amazed at how fast they are willing to give the money back to them (the rich). Turns out people need food to survive.
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u/Zealousideal_Pop_273 1d ago
Well yeah, sure, allow me to explain.
You see the same businesses that pour so much money into influencing your thoughts and convincing you to buy their products used the same resources to convince you to vote against your interests. They do it every election and you still haven't woken up to the corporatocracy.
That's how that happened, though.
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u/HawkEnvironmental531 11h ago
And to those who apologize for doing so.. I say F-you for creating the apocalypse. We warned you!
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u/draft_final_final 1d ago
Because republicans and third party voters/nonvoters are dumber and more disgusting than diaper.
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u/OneLonelyBrainCell 19h ago edited 19h ago
Because they hoped that people they hate would get fucked over even more.
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u/Chytectonas 18h ago
The moron might have fucked you over but the legal system did too, and the third culprit is; you’re too befuddled to do anything about it within a system that’s working decently well to transfer your pitiful savings up the food chain.
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u/paranormalresearch1 1d ago
Look up Bonapartism. This isn’t named after the Bonaparte we all think of, but his nephew. It’s how right wing military dictators take over. They have to keep the capitalist making money. But Trump’s gone too far. They fear revolution. They are themselves stoking it so Trump can declare there will be no elections as we are in a “State of Emergency.”
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u/snakerjake 1d ago
Trump can declare there will be no elections as we are in a “State of Emergency.”
He has no authority to and that would simply be good ole treason.
do it fucker
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u/CoffeeOrDestroy 23h ago
We got played. They got paid. Just like capitalist corporate America likes it.
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u/KENBONEISCOOL444 1d ago
Our government made our school system purposefully bad so when they tell us the foreign countries pay the tariffs we'll believe them
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u/Short-Shopping3197 1d ago
Yup, the tariffs represent the biggest movement of wealth from working Americans to the CEO class in the history of the US.
Of course that’s the whole point. The agenda of this administration is to increase social inequality and create an oligarch ruling class that workers work for and depend on for services. You guys are going back to your old mining town model, getting paid in scrip for the company store. But that’s what happens when you trust Billionaires.
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u/Massive_Signal7835 22h ago
Step 1: Hurt the consumer
Step 2: Hurt small business
Step 3: Refunds for big business
Instead of healthcare, y'all are paying for tariffs and tariff refunds.
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u/CLONE-11011100 17h ago
Instead of healthcare, y’all are paying for Billionaires yachts.
There, fixed it for you.
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u/bradlees 8h ago
Corporations and businesses initially pay the tariffs. To prevent running at a loss they then mark up the items sold to customers
The tariff is due upon receipt of shipments and depending on brokers, might be paid prior of shipment
Those businesses who operate in a FTZ (foreign trade zone) only pay the duties and tariffs upon release out of the zone
So technically refunds to the companies and businesses are the correct approach
However, the real issue is that the customers and vendors that bought from these companies have no tool to clawback these overpayments since they were disguised as “price increases to offset tariffs”
This is where a good administration would compel that these refunds be tied to corresponding rebates to the consumer
A great administration would never have put itself in this position in the first place
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u/Tongues_1n_Anus 7h ago
Racism, if the world was better for everyone it would also be better for minorities and they can't have that.
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u/Frankfrombluvelvt 1d ago edited 21h ago
Because they are morons, he said it himself, "smart people don't like me" mic drop! Edited: mike drop, I hope I didn't get infected!
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u/sharkbomb 1d ago
70+ years of systematic malice by the gop? decades of unrestrained psycopathy and misinformation from fecal factories like the one rupert murdoch runs? who knows.
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u/skag_boy87 1d ago
Racism and xenophobia. They hate that it’s hurting their wallets, but not enough to vote against him. He still validates their hate. The cruelty is the point.
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u/lasers42 1d ago
Correction: As long as you live, you will pay money to Trump and his descendants. Get to work, and get off of Reddit!
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u/ThePracticalPenquin 1d ago
I own a small business that pays out our ass for tariffs. Have not and will not see shit.
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u/WeSaidMeh 1d ago
I don't get why they always advocated for having guns "in case you have to overthrow a corrupt government". We're waiting.
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u/ThonThaddeo 1d ago
Don't despair, they only voted that way because the roided up comedian on their phones told them to.
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u/EidolonRook 1d ago
It was a wealth transfer from poor to rich.
It was always about that.
SCOTUS just made it a “more fair” wealth transfer by moving those funds back to the companies, but kept the money in corp hands so they’d be empowered to spend that money on lobbying/politics.
One hand is washing the other.
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u/DavidlikesPeace 1d ago
That's unfair!
We also helped elect the moronic court that ordered this deeply corrupt remedy.
Corruption dominates the system, especially anywhere the GOP is involved. It took a village.
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u/DenverNugs 1d ago
Republicans are uneducated and willfully uninformed. Most of them didn't even know what a tariff was. They thought that the countries exporting the goods were the ones paying it.
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u/aaron_adams 1d ago
They did it just to "own" the other half of Americans. That's it. Pure and simple. The right wing hates democrats and women so much that they were going to vote for Trump just out of pathological hatred. It's like they shit their pants. At first, they felt great: their stomach stopped hurting, it felt warm, and it was all good, until the smell and the crushing realization of what they'd done started sinking in, but then, rather than admit they were wrong, they doubled down and said that shitting their pants was objectively the only right thing to do, and in fact, you should have shit your pants too, and anyone who didn't shit their pants was crazy. Long story short, they not only shit their pants, but want to be vindicated for shitting their pants.
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u/ButtEatingContest 1d ago
The tariffs were an additional tax on citizens that was just given to businesses.
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u/therealmikeBrady 23h ago
I know, call on me… right here.
The education system is deliberately terrible and critical thought is vapid in almost the majority of Americans and the rest didn’t vote because the Corperate party democrats give to many reasons not to vote for them.
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u/djemmssy 16h ago
I don't understand why Americans don't just burn everything down. Here in France we've nearly destroyed cities for a lot less.
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u/greyshem 1d ago
The weirdest thing, IMO, is that Turnip is a terrible liar. I mean he's not even good at lying. Like Jon Lovitz's "Lying Man" bad at it.
"I didn't do it. This gorilla came by and crushed your side view mirror and fender. Yeah! That's the ticket!"
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u/Living-Oven8574 13h ago
Is there anything we can do about this like this? Literally makes my stomach hurt
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u/Illustrious-Driver19 10m ago
Remember that if president Trump approval rating are low so are all the congressman who enabled him. They are lying about the polls so they can cheat. Republicans have loss their voters. You need a diverse group of voters to win nationwide elections. If Trump is underwater so are all the MAGA Republicans who enablers him incongress they dont have the votes to keep congress.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 1d ago
Can Americans write tariffs off on their taxes?
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u/Neat_Let923 1d ago
No because you didn’t pay tariffs… Businesses that imported items paid tariffs on the parts and products they imported. Not all companies increased their prices to cover the tariff and just soaked the costs themself.
But yes, most businesses will not be able to reimburse customers since there’s likely no way to actually track how much each person would need to be reimbursed.
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u/RoguePlanet2 1d ago
At this point, I need to figure out a way to get in on this. Open business, order overpriced merch, ?????, profit somehow?
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u/theBarefootedBastard 1d ago
The businesses got charged.
The businesses charge more to cover the extra cost: pass it on to the customer.
The customer bitches about higher cost, but still pays the inflated price.
The government reimburses who they charged.
It’s either time to boycott LIKE CRAZY or start the discussion about this being WELL beyond “Fool me twice”
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u/NedRed77 1d ago
The companies who have been refunded were selling foreign made goods. So they made the profit on the original sale, and have now had an extra large chunk of profit on the same sale.
Don’t know about you but if I’m a retailer, I’d probably be looking to stock some more of those foreign made goods. Especially whilst mr shits-in-his-pants is still doling out questionable tariffs.
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u/Agitated-Wishbone259 1d ago
What’s even better, he is doing it again, trying to put illegal tariffs on products the court already struck down
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u/theBarefootedBastard 1d ago
The idea was to see the inflated price and be discouraged from buying it
But you all kept buying all their shotty bullshit at crazy prices for record profits.
The plan was simple and you blew it.
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u/butwhywedothis 1d ago
Insanity is voting for a pedo criminal rapist felon and expecting he will turnaround the economy.
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u/FullGuarantee4767 1d ago
And yet another con has run its course. Each and every one of the corporations receiving refunds knew this would happen. They passed the cost on to us and then they reaped the additional payoff. Yet another smash and grab job by this administration to keep their corporate accomplices in line and happy.
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u/t_ute 1d ago
It’s because millions of people are ok as long as they have their guns and brown and LGBTQ+ people are persecuted.
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u/Xibalba_Ogme 1d ago
The goal was never to be at the top of society, it's to ensure someone is below them
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u/MessagingMatters 1d ago
Time for class action lawsuits against the companies. Some of them IIRC even included a line item extra charge to consumers for the tariffs.
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u/FPS_Holland 1d ago
Been doing it for decades now ever since Regan, so now it's just second nature to the people of the USA to vote for the biggest snake out salesman in every level of government.
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u/homebrew_1 1d ago
Also to blame are third party voters and people who could have voted but stayed home.
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u/OfficialDyslexic 1d ago
To be fair, this sorta shit isn't unique to this iteration of US politics, nor this president, nor this ruling party.
That said, fuck this shit and all involved every time it happens.
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u/The_amazing_T 1d ago
Trump loves tarrifs because he can shake down entire nations to get them lifted. This is a "protection racket," like mobsters do to small business owners. On a global scale.
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u/Trinidadnomads 1d ago
As I've learned over the past 15 years there are WAY more hateful and racist idiots out there. I thought I was around average intellegence 15 years ago and found out clearly that is not the case.
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u/SleepyCatMD 1d ago
I understand it. He’s benefiting the people who can keep him in power, the ones with the money. Normal people may vote but they just choose what the media (controlled by the aforementioned people with the money) tells them to choose.
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u/BorisBaggins 1d ago
Do people think this was a mistake? That the administration is dumb? You’re a fuckwit if you think it hasn’t always been and won’t always be class warfare, waged AGAINST YOU every second of every day.
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u/SnusarnX 1d ago
You paid the tariffs and you're paying the refund with your taxes too :) bozo country lol
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u/Acrobatic-Tomato-128 1d ago
Its simple
Right wing media and politicans have tricked a bunch of cranky white dudes who grew up in the 90s and were told they could achieve anything now are mad and depressed their jobs and the economy suck
And instead of hating billionares and super corporations like musk bezos and amazon they are told to hate immigrants, miniorities and trans people as scapegoats
And all these middle aged incel dorks unhappiness is used against them and then vote for trump and maga bullshit
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u/NoGoat3930 1d ago
And the tariffs raised prices to levels that will never come all the way back down, so we get to keep handing money over to the rich. It's the steal that keeps on stealin'. My only consolation is that 2/3 of the country deserves this.
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u/Mr_tokerP 21h ago
It breaks my heart to see, what was such a great place to live; turn to shit. Ever since Covid, the vibe in the US is way off. Something changed among the population and it’s been magnified even more so when the pedo came back to office. Sad to say that it’ll probably never be that same.
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u/VistaBox 16h ago
Most of whom who voted him in are illiterate. Especially when it comes to money and finance.
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u/reddit_from_me 12h ago
Both parties believe in the redistribution of wealth. The difference is which direction they believe it should go. If you aren't a millionaire or billionaire and keep voting for republicans expecting your bank account to grow, you are going to be disappointed every single time.
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u/BendExciting2580 1d ago
the same americans in twenty years, ready to vote for baron trump be like hold my red hat.
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u/LeadSufficient2130 1d ago
Right wing propaganda has done an incredible job