empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTrump and GOP leaders discuss using tariffs to pay for agendawww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1117arrow-down1external-linkTrump and GOP leaders discuss using tariffs to pay for agendawww.politico.comempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareproper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up48·3 days agoso money from tariffs, which the citizens pay? sounds like raising taxes with extra steps.
minus-squareempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·3 days agoAnd only on poor people whose necessary consumption is a larger percentage of their overall income.
minus-squarehansolo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoEveryone know that when you go to Starbucks, the price is $5.99, and then “they” pay the sales tax. The price to you as an American is $5.99. …sorry, what’s that? The person that buys and received the goods pays the tax? Well. That’s some bullshit. /s
minus-squareMagister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoI’m pretty sure a lot of americans have no clue about USA wanting to tariff Canada/Mexico, and also that a lot of them think that it’s Canada/Mexico that will pay for those tariffs, somehow, but not them.
so money from tariffs, which the citizens pay? sounds like raising taxes with extra steps.
And only on poor people whose necessary consumption is a larger percentage of their overall income.
Everyone know that when you go to Starbucks, the price is $5.99, and then “they” pay the sales tax. The price to you as an American is $5.99.
…sorry, what’s that? The person that buys and received the goods pays the tax? Well. That’s some bullshit.
/s
I’m pretty sure a lot of americans have no clue about USA wanting to tariff Canada/Mexico, and also that a lot of them think that it’s Canada/Mexico that will pay for those tariffs, somehow, but not them.