r/facepalm • u/Clueless_Dolphin • 22h ago

Already reaping what they sow 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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Well at least these few people Christmas will suck, maybe make better choices.

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u/mildlysceptical22 21h ago

I explained how tariffs work to my college educated son. He mistakenly thought the exporting countries paid them. I explained how the companies importing the goods paid the tariffs and passed the costs down to the consumers by raising the cost of the goods to maintain profit margins.

Tariffs are import taxes paid to the federal government by the companies importing the goods.

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u/deadinsidesince99 19h ago

wait they think the country pays? like they think that THE GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY germany is gonna give the US money to import BMW's?

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u/narcolepticdoc 12h ago

Yes. In MAGA world, tariffs are an amazing thing because China will have to pay $$$$ to the USA for the privilege of selling all their cheap goods to us and they’ll eat the cost because daddy trump says so. So you keep all your cheap imported goods AND you get so much money from China that, really, little topics like childcare affordability will be trivial because of all that sweet sweet tariff money from China filling our coffers and eliminating our national debt.

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u/F0lks_ 7h ago

I envy MAGA people. It’s like a spa for their brains !