236 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 13h \ parent \ on: A Brief History of Tariffs and Stock Market Crises econ
It's like we talked about on another post, the tariffs aren't aimed at foreigners. The politicians who implement them couldn't care less who gets hit, as long as the revenue rolls in.
What they know is that the rhetoric of targeting foreigners is more palatable to the voting public.
Yes, for sure. The incidence of the taxation is no different in the cases of tariff and income taxes. They both hit the consumer.
The only decent thing about the tariff is that you can avoid buying that good if you don’t want to pay the tariff. But, let’s face it, a tariff is a tax, only of a special kind.
And, yes, it is always good to say someone else will be suffering the tax, not you!
That is the way the politicians and ELites trick you into consenting to it.
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