this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
359 points (98.4% liked)
AntiTrumpAlliance
744 readers
133 users here now
About
An alliance among all who oppose Donald Trump's actions, positions, cabinet, supporters, policies, or motives. This alliance includes anyone from the left or the right; anyone from any religion or lack thereof; anyone from any country or state; any man, woman or child.
Rules
-No pro-Trump posts or comments
-No off topic posts
-Be civil
-No trolling
-Follow Lemmy terms of service
Social Media
Other Communities
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Mark Carney was very clear in saying any revenue from tariffs will be used to help anyone whose employment is affected by them in Canada. In America, this would be dismissed as socialism.
Trump has stated no clear intention for tariff revenues in the US. Probably subsidies to his cronies and some type of scheme to enrich himself.
Pay for the 20,000 new brownshirts (sorry, Homeland Security & ICE agents) he just said he'll hire.
And unlike taxes, tariffs are collected by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a division of the DHS!
So it might not even need to go through the Treasury!
Isn't it wonderful to have a strong, idealistic authoritarian leader singlehandedly wield unchecked power in the pursuit of punishing people for being different? We should have a name for that
Crazy that it took only 100 years for America to descend into Nazism. Really thought collective memory would be longer than that.
I'm surprised it took that long
That is 100% absolutely his thinking. It will likely have some true results as well. All of them horrifyingly unethical, most of them illegal, and not one goddamned motherfucker will stop any of it.