• Talcosis@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    Tariffs are just a roundabout way to implement flat tax. That’s why they talk about how tariff income will replace lost tax revenue.

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      9 days ago

      And in this instance, they’re being used because the SC said that Trump can’t impose a broad import tax.

      So he conveniently enacts tariffs on our trading partners, who make up 99.4% of our imports, because they “didn’t do enough to ensure slave labor wasn’t used.”