this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
806 points (98.9% liked)

Bluesky

695 readers
283 users here now

People skeeting stuff.

Bluesky Social is a microblogging social platform being developed in conjunction with the decentralized AT Protocol. Previously invite-only, the flagship Beta app went public in February 2024. All are welcome!

founded 3 months ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
806
When your president failed law school (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
92 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Tariffs do not work.

Even if you just target one item, like this moron did with washing machines 8 years ago, what happened?

Imported washing machines went up 25% in price.

Domestically produces machines went up 25%, because why wouldn't they gauge more money??

Tariffs only hurt the consumer.