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Summary

A Harris poll reveals that 69% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs would increase consumer costs, with many planning purchases ahead of his inauguration to avoid price hikes.

Trump has championed tariffs as a key policy to boost domestic manufacturing, but economists and corporate leaders warn costs will be passed to consumers, potentially adding $2,600 annually to household expenses.

While Republicans are more supportive of tariffs, only 51% think they will benefit the economy.

The poll highlights widespread concern over tariffs’ economic impact, especially amid lingering inflation and financial uncertainty.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well, the other 31% will learn it the hard way.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

It doesn't matter what they 'think'. Tariffs will fuck everything up for everyone involved. People's opinions on this mean nothing. It is like asking people if they think that being thrown into a deep body water with a heavy chain around around your feet will kill. The answer they give is irrelevant. That action will kill you because you will drown. End of discussion.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Headline should read "One third of Americans have no idea how a tariff works"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

And most of them showed up and voted for Trump. 1/3rd of adults voting for fascism is all it takes to destroy a country when 70 million people stay home and don't vote

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I upgraded my GPU and bought a bunch of audio stuff that I was gonna wait to pull the trigger on til later. Not taking the chance of not being able to afford it later.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The other third are household pets.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

The other third are household ~~pets~~ plants.

Give the pets a bit of credit, even they saw this shit coming...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe they should have voted appropriately on Nov 5.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Jesus, this is so fucking contrarian.

Yes, taxing goods imported from countries with poor labor laws increases their price.

Yes, we should increase the cost of goods that are made with unfair labor practices (or ban them entirely)

Yes, Trump is still a criminal even if he accidentally does the right thing every now and then

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Not all imported goods are made with unfair labor practices.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

ITT 1/3 of Americans are fucking morons

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Alternate headline: 1/3 of Americans Functionally Didn't Receive High School Education

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This comment is both fucking hilarious and shittily depressing at the same time. I don’t know which emotion is stronger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

shittily depressing

This one. It's definitely this one. 🙁

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Tbf, I was very ignorant regarding tariffs as a young adult post highschool. But also, we have the Internet, and Google, and as of now we have fucking AI that can ELI5 literally any topic you are interested in knowing more about if you aren't an ignorant piece of shit. But here we are, America is full of ignorant pieces of shit. Shocker.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The other 3rd are just that braindead

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well now hold up, a little more than half of the 2/3 knew better but voted for it anyways. Id say they're pretty braindead too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A little more than half knew better but didn't bother to vote.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This has been common for so long and 2020 was a fluke with voter turnout. You're totally right here, people did just not vote but it's also a result of not giving people incentives that get them to vote. Voting isn't really easy in much of the US, especially for those working long hours at the start of the holiday season. Biden ran on stimmy checks and student loan forgiveness, Harris ran on small business tax incentives and building a wall. Just like with plastics, it's easy to look at individual blame here and get upset with the people who didn't vote but it's the system that made them not want to vote.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump ran on "I'm going to be a dictator" and a third of Americans didn't consider that reason enough to vote.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago

Because they voted away the problem in the past right? Hell, it doesn't even matter that a third of American's didn't vote because most of them live in like 4 states. You say that as if it has any real measurable weight when in reality it is a handful of states that had maybe a million or two combined not participate. The type of base you could inspire instead of parading around you're endorsed by a war criminal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

but they are more likely to vote than the other two thirds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

They are more likely to vote for the wrong team

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A Harris poll reveals that 69% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs would increase consumer costs, with many planning purchases ahead of his inauguration to avoid price hikes.

Galaxy brain economics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I mean when they drew it up they showed commuter costs were up hundreds of dollars a piece. If he does what he says he was planning to do every company's IT budget is shot. If people thought they had old computers before, no chance they are getting upgraded if that happens. Instead of saying new laptops every 3-4 years and desktops 5 years they'll likely just switch back to desktops and say every 6 years, cutting out paying for docks/port replicators, and having more reasonsl to force users into office to get people to quit and cut payroll costs as well. Bottom line still goes up, CEO and stocks go up, quality of product/service... Goes down

Note obviously that cuts into the network infrastructure and all software licensing as well. You have to renew licenses, maybe can cut some cost if you cut staff, but it means forcing more users to cheaper software, and likely holding off all wireless access points upgrades/installs, new fiber runs etc

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I love how people are debating this as if it's not a well understood concept. Can't wait till we get headlines like "1/4 of people belive a bullet to the head might possibly be fatal in some cases".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago
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