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[–] [email protected] 171 points 1 month ago (5 children)

lol ours is retaliatory but theirs are reciprocal?

Eat shit asshole.

This guy doesn’t even understand those words. They’ve got someone writing his tweets now.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (7 children)

@imvii Perhaps since little donny says he does not need anything from Canada we should shut off his electric and oil now. That would be before he could effectively replace it.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (22 children)

It will be a shit show until Canada and the rest of the western world work out agreements independent of the US.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago

When you have a 25% tariff, additional tariffs really don't matter.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can barely afford to live here now asshole

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Never could have

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

The real problem is that Trump's supporters don't understand tariffs, and wouldn't believe the explanation anyway because to them it just sounds like Orange Man Bad.

When the US imposes a tariff on Canada, importers of Canadian goods pay the tariff to the US government. To recover that cost they raise the prices they charge American customers. So Americans end up paying the tariff. The only damage it does to Canada is that the tariff could discourage US importers from buying certain goods from Canada if they can get them somewhere else without paying a tariff. That happens in some cases, but in others Canada is already the cheapest (or only) source of a high-demand item, so Americans will just pay the higher prices - the way they're still paying jacked-up COVID prices for so many things, for example.

Millions of Americans, being too dumb or unwilling to grasp this, think these tariffs are Trump heroically saving them from the evils of foreigners who want to destroy their Freedom.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

Millions of Americans, being too dumb or unwilling to grasp this

Reports from people who know him, Trump is one of these people. He clearly doesn't understand the process.

“I’ve been in the room when it’s been explained to him, and he doesn’t understand it, but he likes tariffs,” Bolton said.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

not to mention any potential compound tariffs on complex goods likes automobiles for example.

Prices skyrocket immensely.

The housing market is only going to get more expensive, etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

By compound tariffs, do you mean extra tariff fees due to repeated trips across the border in the manufacturing process?

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago

Trump doesn't understand he's a bitch no matter what he does.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

100%....hmmm. Yeah 200%!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

Later today, Lutnik (Trump aid), said that "we will meet Canada/Mexico half way on tariffs.", with announcement tomorrow. So, maybe other direction.

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