911@lemmynsfw.com to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agoTrump’s Tariff Proposals Would Raise Tariff Rates to Great Depression-Era Levels.taxfoundation.orgexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoOnly kinda, that assumes enough people still buy the imports otherwise there’s no money to transfer over.
minus-squareTimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoA tariff isn’t a money making tool, it’s about making a good not as great a deal against another, typically a domestically made good.
minus-squareRamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoTrump doesn’t understand it though. He plans* to use it to finance childcare. *As if he would do something like that. Why keep kids fed when you can line your pockets instead.
minus-squarezephorah@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoThere’s a sound bite of him at a recent rally talking about how much he hated paying overtime and how he would avoid it. He doesn’t care.
minus-squareRamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoAnd I’m sure he doesn’t feel it understand empathy
Only kinda, that assumes enough people still buy the imports otherwise there’s no money to transfer over.
A tariff isn’t a money making tool, it’s about making a good not as great a deal against another, typically a domestically made good.
Trump doesn’t understand it though. He plans* to use it to finance childcare.
*As if he would do something like that. Why keep kids fed when you can line your pockets instead.
There’s a sound bite of him at a recent rally talking about how much he hated paying overtime and how he would avoid it.
He doesn’t care.
And I’m sure he doesn’t feel it understand empathy