Leopards Ate My Face

Ah yes, America is finally finding out what a Tarrif actually is, in real time.

How does this benefit me?

...and how would it have benefited you, if the seller had to pay it? They would either increase the price for you or never have made the deal.

Even the thing you expected would have been stupid for you 🤣

The inability to critically think is the first and foremost requirement to be an American conservative.

The way it is supposed to work is that they would buy the part from a local manufacturer, thus protecting that manufacturer from foreign competitors. Problem is we got rid of most of our manufacturing in order to break unions and for shareholders to get an extra .0000001% out of their investment. So tariffs now just hurt us.

The best thing is that even if the tax was paid by the exporter they would just raise the price of their product accordingly for the import region lol

The problem with people like this is NOT the fact that they were dumb enough to believe Trump's lies about tariffs.

The real problem is them crying more about having to pay the tariffs themselves than about having been blatantly lied to.

How does this benefit me?

Is the satisfaction of making dear leader and his rich friends richer not enough for you?

This is literally how tariffs work. They don’t benefit you. They fuck you in your anus. We tried to tell you.

At first you think he may just be naive of how tarrifs work. Which is still true, but it doesn't explicitly label him as maga.

Then he says this....

How does this benefit me?

And there it is. The selfish attitude that tells me he voted for this exact outcome without a clue what that outcome actually was. Just voted for his team, and didn't bother with the details. Oh well. Have the day you voted for.

The fact that the distinction of who the fees actually get connected from matters so much to people is so crazy to me. It doesn't matter who the fees are collected from, you're paying them regardless. If the exporter pays them they will just raise the price you pay to cover the cost. It also amazes me that so many people who were in favor of tariffs somehow think they wouldn't raise prices even though that's literally the entire fucking point of tariffs. They raise the prices of foreign goods to give domestic goods that cost more an advantage.

Okay so pretend they are right, pretend that the Spanish manufacturer pays the tariff:

Do you think they will still sell it at the same price if they had to pay $450? They'd just charge you more to cover their fees, lmfao.

Edit: Oh someone here already commented this, oops

I don't think I could find a Spanish person, except perhaps a child, who didn't understand the concept of an import tax. How are Americans so goddamn stupid that they don't understand something that simple.

It's a tax, in the United States, imposed by the president of the United States, why the fuck would a Spanish company pay it?

USA USA USA!

Enjoy the tariffs idiot.

WE TRIED TO TELL YOU!

Aside from everything else, apparently this guy doesn't understand how "Asking for a friend" is supposed to work.

What you mad at lil bro? that's called making america great again! Next time you order your equipment from USA 🏈🦅

Let's just say for the sake of the argument that the exporter did have to pay taxes on the purchases. The exporter isn't going to pay $450 of of pocket. The purchaser is still going to have to pay the $450 taxes.

Maybe op should have bought domestic instead of importing it.

Surprise! You're being taxed. They use tariffs because you don't know what the word means

Knowing DHL, the actual import duty is about half that. The rest is a "brokerage fee" they are charging on top of the tariff. They will not provide an itemized invoice until after you pay. They will not answer any questions about it.

In my home country, the news always mention "could be passed on to consumers" when it's about import duties. I don't know what US news tell to Americans for so many consumers to believe they won't pay a dime on the cost of tariffs.