Leopards Ate My Face

Apparently it’s difficult to grasp that price increases when thing get more expensive.

You all are snowflakes but please explain this to me without triggering me

Your president is an idiot that is why your being charged more MAGAt.

In other words, Brandon has no fucking idea what "tariff" means, except it must be good cuz Daddy says so.

I would be short and concise, and just for this person add a sprinkle of personal responsibility:

Trump taxed you because you bought something un-American.

They STILL don't get it? Everyone has been yelling about exactly what would happen. The news, social media, people protesting in the streets... even Fox News is critical of the Tariffs now. Journalists are bringing it up at White House press conferences and getting reaponses from the Press Secretary. This is not a secret. What sort of social bubble/echo chamber, do these people live in? Just fully bought in to the kool-aid. Useful idiots, the lot of them!

PLEASE be Nice to Him! He THOUGHT Electing Trump would mean he could PUNCH TRANS KIDS in Public and Run Over Immigrant Children! He DIDNT think it would Hurt HIS Wallet! He's WHITE For Pete's Sake! Show some SYMPATHY!

See, the trick is that calling it a tariff hides the fact it's an IMPORT TAX, paid by the people within the IMPORTING COUNTRY

2d means lots of times for replies, I want to see what he said when it was explained to him.

If an entire cult is too fucking stupid to recognize what’s hurting them, then how the fuck could tariffs be MAGA’s death knell like some people are saying? You could literally douse some of these people in gasoline and tell them, ‘I need you to burn for just a couple seconds for Trump,’ and they’d fucking do it.

I saw some asshole in an interview saying, “Sometimes you gotta walk through the fire first.”

Like…Yeah? Maybe. Just don’t start by lighting yourself the fuck on fire. 😕🔫

Tariffs are paid by the company that imports foreign-made goods to the government. To make up for that expense, they charge the retailer the same amount; and to make up for that expense, the retailer charges the customer the same (or a higher) amount added to the item's price. (at least as I understand it)

If OOP is "100% Trump!", they should be very, extremely happy about paying into THEIR President's pockets.

Why is it always my president or not my president with these people? It's not a sporting event, there are teams but not the ones they're thinking of

What's annoying and nobody seems to grasp is that even if the tax was on the foreign producer instead of the domestic consumer, the end result would be the same thing. They wouldn't just eat the cost lol.

Because it's very hard to search online for "how tariffs work". This is why Trump got elected, because idiots like this who have no capacity to fact check things voted for him, no questions asked.

To make answer short, YOU pay the tariffs dummy. You do!

Trump has said that other countries are ripping off the USA which creates the impression that foreign companies are selling goods far higher than they are worth. That means that people who believe Trump likely think that the foreign companies have enough margin to soak up the tariff, I.e. Pay it themselves, in order to keep doing business. Then the ripping off stops and those foreign countries just grumble that their gravy train is over.

In reality, they are not and never were ripping off the USA in the way that is being suggested. Republicans seem to have forgotten that the market forces they used to talk about being so important have put a downward pressure on prices to some extent have prevented price gouging wherever there is competition and no collusion. Even when the goods come from overseas.

Now due to the tariffs, the cost of doing business with the USA went up. So if they want to keep selling products in the USA, they need to cover the cost of the tariff, and the only way to do that and stay in business is to pass the tariff on by increasing their price to the customer. They can still sell that product outside the USA at its original price but they may choose to increase those due to reduced volume sold over all since the USA will likely buy less.

By labelling the surcharge for the tariff they are simply highlighting the reason for the increase in price. As they should. I fear though that posts like this show that even when the reason for increased pricing is made clear, people will still choose their reality and not believe or understand the causes and motivations.

I'm impressed they are line iteming it for you.

A tariff is a tax on foreign goods, paid by the consumer.

IT. IS. A TAX

....for millenia there has been an axiom, a truism, if you will, that has persisted among the many, and applied to very few..."you cannot fix stupid"

People still don't know?! Lmao. How stupid can you be?

Oh no not YOUR president! 🙄

You voted for it, you figure it out

Is it surprising that the people who thought Mexico would pay for a border wall also don't understand how tariffs work?