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moonshinegnomie

(3,881 posts)
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 05:15 PM Apr 2025

It's time to call it what is is

It’s not a tariff. It’s the trump tax hike. And given how he’s all about tax cut calling it that especially if it takes hold will really get under his skin

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It's time to call it what is is (Original Post) moonshinegnomie Apr 2025 OP
It is a national sales tax nt doc03 Apr 2025 #1
It's his pay to play. Blue Full Moon Apr 2025 #2
Using the real language of the street - Dan Apr 2025 #3
Justin Wolfers shows here why you're exactly right. ancianita Apr 2025 #4
It's intentional destruction of the US economy. RandomNumbers Apr 2025 #5
It's the Putin surcharge. dchill Apr 2025 #6

Blue Full Moon

(3,179 posts)
2. It's his pay to play.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:05 PM
Apr 2025

When the companies grovel to him he will be a king and grant them no tariffs. Then people who don't know any better will believe that he has saved them .

Dan

(4,982 posts)
3. Using the real language of the street -
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:40 PM
Apr 2025

It’s a shake down. Pay Trump and you get relief, that is true at both the local domestic level and now at the International level. A shake down, pure and simple.

ancianita

(42,909 posts)
4. Justin Wolfers shows here why you're exactly right.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:50 PM
Apr 2025

the clear-as-day Wolfers graph:
"The unspoken logic of Trump's tariff-for-tax swap is pure redistribution.

The light blue bars show the Trump tax plan creates bigger gains for the rich. He pays for this with tariffs—the dark blue bars—which raise the cost of living for all households in roughly equal measure."



Wolfers is badass.

RandomNumbers

(19,070 posts)
5. It's intentional destruction of the US economy.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:55 PM
Apr 2025

To go along with the intentional destruction of the US government.

Okay maybe not "intentional" as that word would apply normally. But the end result is the same as if it were. So how are we to know what intention is there or not?

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