r/agedlikemilk 1d ago

Curdled.

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u/DrJohnnyBananas74 1d ago

Big dummy, he literally said he'd do this and mooks like you voted for him.

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u/Berblarez 1d ago

Did he really talk about implementing tariffs all across the board?

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u/Aok54 1d ago

Yes

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u/Interesting-Pin1433 1d ago

Yes, he repeatedly said he would do it

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trumps-trade-protectionism-keeps-intensifying-184713836.html

Kamala Harris and her campaign surrogates said it would be economically devastating and that tariffs would raise prices.

23 Nobel winning economists said Harris' economy plan was much better than Trump's, and specifically cited his tariffs as a major issue.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/nobel-prize-economists-harris-economic-plan/index.html

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u/Quicklythoughtofname 1d ago

This is what I don't get. How can you call people stupid for literally listening to the guy?

Him admitting he's wrong is one thing, but it's not like we had a lucky guess, here.

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u/alicea020 1d ago

Because they choose what to take seriously and what he's bluffing about.

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u/DrJohnnyBananas74 1d ago

Yes. But in his defense, he was so stupid he thought the importing country paid the tariffs. Wait, guess that isn't in his defense.

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u/SisterCharityAlt 1d ago

No no, the importing country does pay the tariff. The exporting country does not.

If you buy X in Y country, you pay the US the tariff, Y now has put reciprocal tariffs on the US on goods bought that are exported.

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u/DrJohnnyBananas74 1d ago

Yeah I meant the country sending the goods. The reality is no country pays. The consumer pays and he doesn't know that. He just stuck us all with a gigantic sales tax.

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u/badlydrawnboyz 1d ago

you can have export tariffs as well. But yeah, colloquially it defaults to import tariffs.

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u/SuspiciousSubstance9 1d ago

Here is a Fox News video from August 2023 where he details it. 

But in case you missed that, it was widely reported on and even was a wedge Harris used. PBS from September 2024:

As president, Trump imposed tariffs with a flourish — targeting imported solar panels, steel, aluminum and pretty much everything from China. “Tariff Man,” he called himself.

This time, he’s gone much further: He has proposed a 60% tariff on goods from China — and a tariff of up to 20% on everything else the United States imports.

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Vice President Kamala Harris has dismissed Trump’s tariff threats as unserious. Her campaign has cited a report that found that Trump’s 20% universal tariff would cost a typical family nearly $4,000 a year.

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u/ranchojasper 1d ago

I do not mean this in a rude way, I am genuinely inquiring because I would really like to know, how is it that you didn't hear about that? It was one of the top things he talked about nonstop while campaigning, it was one of the biggest issues non-Trump supporters were constantly bringing up to try to warn everyone that this will literally destroy the economy.

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u/Berblarez 1d ago

I’m not American

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u/ttoma93 1d ago

Yes. Over and over and over and over again. Repeatedly.