empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoTrump and GOP leaders discuss using tariffs to pay for agendawww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up194arrow-down1external-linkTrump and GOP leaders discuss using tariffs to pay for agendawww.politico.comempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareproper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up40·9 hours agoso money from tariffs, which the citizens pay? sounds like raising taxes with extra steps.
minus-squareempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·9 hours agoAnd only on poor people whose necessary consumption is a larger percentage of their overall income.
minus-squareMagister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 hours 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.
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.