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Local Tariff Man Still Doesn't Appear To Understand Foreign Countries Don't Pay His Tariffs, Americans Do
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Local Tariff Man Still Doesn't Understand Foreign Countries Don't Pay His Tariffs, Americans Do (Original Post)
iluvtennis
Dec 2018
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Glamrock
(11,803 posts)1. Once again.
Republicans raise taxes on the middle class.
renate
(13,776 posts)2. I love Daniel Dale
And I *really* love Sassy Daniel Dale!
Gothmog
(146,137 posts)3. From Robert Reich
iluvtennis
(19,923 posts)4. Exactly.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)5. His tweet is just more grist for the knuckle-dragging dipshit cult members who exist in fantasy (nt)
chuckless
(3 posts)6. Not Tariff Man. He's Goniff Man
meow2u3
(24,781 posts)9. Welcome to DU!
Caliman73
(11,760 posts)7. His understanding of many things is rudimentary.
Of course tariffs are typically proposed to protect domestic production by ultimately raising the price of foreign products to the point that the domestic product is more desirable, but as most have said, the pain is always felt by the consumers first and hardest. China won't care until the demand for their product lowers if it ever does.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)8. How does he not understand this yet?
Surely it must have been explained to him dozens of times. He has no effing clue how the economy works at all, does he?