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Recession Donny repeatedly lies about tariffs being a fee charged from the exporting countries when it's actually a tax placed on the importers by their own government (which ultimately gets paid by consumers in the form of higher prices).

He relies on his followers being too ignorant and too trapped in their own echo chamber to know better.

In case you're wondering: charging other countries for the right to do business is called '"an extortion racket"

The tariffs aren't even based on any real economic concern, even a made up one. It's based on Trump's irrational disdain for trade deficits.

A trade deficit is when one country imports from another more than that country imports from them. It means that the first country "loses" money (in purely monetary terms).

It has no detrimental effect whatsoever (wikipedia has 5 different citations to back up that fact), but it makes Trump's narcissistic baby brain feel like he's being screwed.

That's why and how the Trump administration determined on who and how much to raise tariffs against. They published the formula

Basically they converted the trade deficit to a percentage by dividing it against total imports and then divided that by two.

It's entirely pointless and extremely harmful to the economy. All so that the US could hold onto more of its dollars. Dollars that will become worth less and less as prices rise and countries trade less and less with the US.

"WIKIPEDIA has FIVE CITATIONS so it must be true!"

you are not a serious person

I don't know, seems like a good at a glance metric. Wikipedia is usually pretty careful about content quality, and you could always check and challenge the citations if you feel they are weak.

You absolutely should do more than look simply at the number of citations, especially when there's more than around three appended to one individual spot. that implies that either A) editors thought the point was weak, but instead of rewriting it, they just piled more citations onto it to make it appear stronger at a glance, or B) editors thought the point was very important, so they piled on more citations to make it look more important

it's wise to personally check citations on Wikipedia, given the strong ideological slant the editor base has writ large, but challenging them is an uphill battle that's not usually worth the effort. so many articles have a number of people squatting them 24/7 who will dogpile you with the dumbest arguments and beat you with numbers and experience

Recession Donny repeatedly lies about tariffs being a fee charged from the exporting countries when it's actually a tax placed on the importers by their own government (which ultimately gets paid by consumers in the form of higher prices).

He relies on his followers being too ignorant and too trapped in their own echo chamber to know better.

In case you're wondering: charging other countries for the right to do business is called '"an extortion racket"

The tariffs aren't even based on any real economic concern, even a made up one. It's based on Trump's irrational disdain for trade deficits.

A trade deficit is when one country imports from another more than that country imports from them. It means that the first country "loses" money (in purely monetary terms).

It has no detrimental effect whatsoever (wikipedia has 5 different citations to back up that fact), but it makes Trump's narcissistic baby brain feel like he's being screwed.

That's why and how the Trump administration determined on who and how much to raise tariffs against. They published the formula

Basically they converted the trade deficit to a percentage by dividing it against total imports and then divided that by two.

It's entirely pointless and extremely harmful to the economy. All so that the US could hold onto more of its dollars. Dollars that will become worth less and less as prices rise and countries trade less and less with the US.

"WIKIPEDIA has FIVE CITATIONS so it must be true!"

you are not a serious person

Recession Donny repeatedly lies about tariffs being a fee charged from the exporting countries when it's actually a tax placed on the importers by their own government (which ultimately gets paid by consumers in the form of higher prices).

He relies on his followers being too ignorant and too trapped in their own echo chamber to know better.

that's because his end goal isn't to make products as cheap as possible. that's what everyone's already been doing for the past 50 years. he wants to jumpstart american manufacturing. and one of the ways to do this is to raise prices on imported goods to match the domestic equilibrium. if outsourcing to cheap labor in other countries becomes less viable, businesses will invest in local production, which creates jobs.

the point of all this is to make america more independent so we don't have to play nice with other foreign powers to get basic goods. you can agree with this goal, or you can disagree, but that's besides the point. the point is that if he told people outright "things are going to be more expensive for a bit but it's for a good reason" nobody would believe him.

another thing is that, by relying less on cheap foreign labor in any form, wages will go up with time, ultimately benefiting the American worker