Was he actually thinking that those $450 were just gifted by the exporter?
Enjoy the tariffs idiot.
These people can’t be as stupid as these looks into their lives suggest? Ignorant though? They are really ignorant.
The best thing is that even if the tax was paid by the exporter they would just raise the price of their product accordingly for the import region lol
Right? Like, this should be obvious to everyone. Why don’t people immediately see this? It’s crazy.
It helps. Because Trump will spend that money on destroying east wing, hiding and redacting Epstein files, and killing American citizens
Tariffs are more of a soft ban than anything else. They’re meant to function to protect local industry from cheap imports. And they don’t even achieve that.
Case in point: in the 1980’s I believe it was, Yamaha came out with their Virago line of cruiser motorcycles. They were objectively better than Harley-Davidsons and sold much cheaper, the only reason to buy a Harley was 1. because the gaing you’re in requires ownership of one to be a member, 2. cosplaying as a member of said gang requires ownership of one, or 3. your boomer brain couldn’t handle your motorcycle going duh-duh-duh-duh instead of duduh-duduh.
So Harley lobbied for and got a tariff on cruiser motorcycles of over I think it was 1200ccs engine displacement, which simply made the Japanese bikes cost more like what the American ones did. Yamaha responded by slightly treducing the cylinder bores to bring the displacement down to 1150cc making the tariff non-applicable and nothing of use was accomplished.
Brilliant.
A person could pay 100% tarriff on the cost of a Yamaha Virago(v-star) and it would still be cheaper than a Harley.
Jesus why are Harley’s so expensive
ESPECIALLY considering the long term costs of ownership
In my home country, the news always mention “could be passed on to consumers” when it’s about import duties. I don’t know what US news tell to Americans for so many consumers to believe they won’t pay a dime on the cost of tariffs.
Oh they announced it loudly that it would be passed down to consumers, but some people prefer to watch opinion channels that played it like tariff and import-tax were different.
A lot of voters sadly only view right wing YouTubers and radio hosts as valid information.
Aside from everything else, apparently this guy doesn’t understand how “Asking for a friend” is supposed to work.
Well, I think everything so far that we know about them point to them not being the sharpest tack in the box.
They’re not even in the box, they were rejected by quality assurance for being so unbelievably blunt
Maybe they think it means looking/asking for a friendly person.
Could be.
How do I ask for a friend?
Asking for a friend.
which is himself.
Ive seen that / swim used as ‘totally embarrassed that i was that dumb’ before. I think its that?
Sure, but you still have to respect the form of the statement. You have to pretend that something happened to someone else.
For example: “How would someone remove a 4 1/2 inch cylinder that’s stuck in an m&m minis tube. Asking for a friend.”
Not: “I got my dick stuck in an m&m minis tube, how do I get it out? Asking for a friend.”
Everyone knows that you’re talking about yourself, but you’re supposed to pretend that it’s your friend who’s the idiot.
Swim?
“somebody who isn’t me”, in a tongue-in-cheek way.
OP is supposed to take their now even less money and start a business/factory/supply chain in america making those things in america so that OP can be extorted by the Trump administration so that Trump can then take OP’s new business from OP.
C’mon that OP isn’t even trying to understand what is happening.
Sure, and Mexico will pay for your wall 🤣
If they don’t want a bunch of refugees fleeing oppression coming over from the United States they may have to
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We call it the Trump extortion tax.
Maybe that’s why Canada keeps responding with “tariff me harder”.
The way it is supposed to work is that they would buy the part from a local manufacturer, thus protecting that manufacturer from foreign competitors. Problem is we got rid of most of our manufacturing in order to break unions and for shareholders to get an extra .0000001% out of their investment. So tariffs now just hurt us.
They didn’t work previously either.
In fact income tax was created specifically because tariffs don’t work.
I’m waiting for Trump to tell him how incredibly ungrateful he is for not supporting Trump’s drive to increase US production/Trump’s bank account.
im pretty sure trump said that in various ways already: You will have a lower quality of life, get used to it, and STop asking questions and you supported what i campaigned on,etc.
Maybe op should have bought domestic <niche item only available in Spain> instead of importing it.
lol frfr. these people have NO clue what tariffs are meant for.
domestic <niche item only available in Spain>
Domestic manchego. Aka Velveeta.
