• underisk [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      28 days ago

      You can’t make fun of me for getting exactly what I voted for because I didn’t know what the word “tariff” meant at the time.

      I want to ask how they think a tariff would work if it didn’t effect the cost to consumers, but I’m like 100% certain they didn’t think about the consequences of it at all before blindly cheering for something they thought would hurt their enemies: the people who sell them cheap slop clothing.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        27 days ago

        someone here recently said they think trump understands tariffs as taxes, like it would explain why he thinks a 100% tariff on mexico is the ultimate punishment you can do to them because a 100% tariff tax is all of their money!

        might also explain how the hogs understand tariffs as well

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
      211·
      28 days ago

      ordering a hundred freedom bucks worth of shitty clothes from shein is the final boss of american consoooooomerism

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    28 days ago

    Wait, Americans don’t have to pay tax on incoming packages? I got a replacement jar for like 20 bucks for my Hario grinder from Japan about 2 years ago, and I ended up paying more in import tax than in shipping, and you’re supposed to pay it before the package clears customs.

    • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      5·
      27 days ago

      There are import taxes on some things, yes

      But in general, no, we don’t

      I remember discovering (the very hard way…) the opposite case when shipping A GIFT to a friend in Europe (non-EU state). I was sure I was being extorted, and I still kinda that’s true on a deep level, but ultimately I checked the laws and yeah it is right there in writing. I just remember being like "anything I ship from now on is “broken. Value: $0"”

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    27 days ago

    On one hand, “the confusion is the point.”

    On the other hand, Trump seems to be pretty good at navigating the basic USA truism “most won’t remember what happened last week” so changing his mind doesn’t cost him anything.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      6·
      27 days ago

      And this kind of tariff hits people directly so it becomes very visible how it’s harming them. It’s kind of funny that he didn’t realize this to begin with.