r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Sounds about right.

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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.

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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/DrawohYbstrahs 1d ago

…and none of the factories will employ humans, as they’ll all use robots.

GENIUS long term plan guys. GENIUS.

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u/red18wrx 1d ago

How is a self-sustaining economy supposed to work? I'm going to be honest. I don't know how a regular economy works.