Arguing with my dad about tariffs again. He literally does not listen or change his views whatsoever every time. He thinks tariffs are like a cumulative tallying of all the parts inside an item. (hexbear.net)

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Where are "people" (Conservatives) getting this idea from? Governments do not have total information of the production of all goods produced in the world. How hard is it to understand they just look at the shipping location of items and their classified category?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If fox news had a breakdown of how tariffs worked would he believe it? Any other information sources he would trust that isn’t a chud/grifter podcast?

If the answer is no, he’d only ever believe info from a silly podcast or america’s silliest news network, I advise you cut your loses on this one.

My dad’s no trumplerite but I learned a while ago if my ideas aren’t corroborated by NYT or some funny lib on twitter my dad will never willingly agree with me.

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