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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 83 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

See, the trick is that calling it a tariff hides the fact it's an IMPORT TAX, paid by the people within the IMPORTING COUNTRY

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

It doesn't hide it from most people, just those too dumb to go and find out what a tariff is before voting for them.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

just those too dumb to go and find out what a tariff is before voting for them

Of which there are more than 70 million in this country.

[–] ecvanalog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Probably closer to 200 million. Americans are deeply stupid about this kind of thing, and I suspect most people on the left didn’t really understand either until they were told how Trump’s plan was insane.

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