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There are people who don’t know how tariffs work?

If America is the sole buyer, then the tax would be shared between both countries. (Lower demand will lower the price that the foreign supplier can ask for, making up some of the extra tax cost). But since USA is doing these tariffs on so many countries, other countries will just lay new trading routes.

So yeah, USA will feel it.

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My job has been impacted by Trumpas well. Stock prices falling and tariffs have caused them to do layoff of 2500 people. I fucking hate this so much. I work with many international customers and Trump/Musk has been brought up constantly and in my line of work people typically avoid political discussions but it’s kinda nice to hear our allies don’t actually hate Americans and know what the real problem is.

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Your telling me the US government can’t just demand other countries pay them money for no reason?

/j

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Okay so, continuity error.

In the beginning his hours are being cut almost entirely, and at the end they’re in no danger of being cut?

It’s not good story but this is either a weird grammatical error or this is one those “things that didn’t happen” stories.

Not that I doubt people think that other countries pay for tarrifs because Daddy Trump has been saying that for months and months but 


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Orrr
 ya missed the “another one of our guys” part

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That seems to be what happened. Oof.

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Man, I wonder how basic reading comprehension played a role in the last election.

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Actually the blame on this is his lack of paragraphs .

Thoughts should be separated!

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Thoughts apartheid 🧐

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Or dyslexia/ADHD

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Read again - it was two different people he was talking about. It’s implied that they have different job positions so their hours were impacted differently.

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Ahh okay so that makes sense.

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Simple answers to complex questions is fast, and helps people quickly move into the phase where they’re expending energy on “solutions” rather than debating the issue.

We’re lazy. People are lazy - I know I am.

Something that’s sufficiently removed from our everyday experience is mysterious, and (someone we trust) tells us that it will work? No questions, here we go!

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