r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Sounds about right.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 1d ago

The government will take trillions from the American populous, then when all manufacturing comes back to the US, tariff revenue will drop to zero. But Americans will still pay the higher prices to the corporations.

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u/galaxy_horse 23h ago

This basically distills the tariff gambit down to its one-two punch of wealth transfer:

  • a tax on consumption (to offset huge tax breaks for the wealthy), followed by
  • higher prices for domestically produced goods (to increase profits for the wealthy)

At some point normal people are going to lash out en masse and it’s not going to go well for the super wealthy. Why can’t they just pay their fucking taxes?

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u/SpleenBender 22h ago

Why can’t they just pay their fucking taxes?

This is what I keep asking myself - how in ANY WAY do billionaires need even more billions‽ it's disgusting

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u/galaxy_horse 22h ago

Their perverted, psychopathic need for money is why they got the billions in the first place.