He's also fond of saying we're going to make trillions from the tariff payments, but we'll all be buying American products. The math does not check out.
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.
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?
Elon Musk could, from his personal fortune, end world hunger. Also all homelessness in the USA. Fund cures for multiple diseases.
And when done he would still be a billionaire. Still have more than he could ever spend.
What does he do instead? Break election laws, fuck over hundreds of millions of people, destroy government programs that help people, steal private data, and assist in manufacturing a global economic crisis.
All so he can have more that he won’t ever be able to spend.
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u/damunzie 1d ago
He's also fond of saying we're going to make trillions from the tariff payments, but we'll all be buying American products. The math does not check out.