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sanitation@lemmy.today to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 8 days ago

Trump’s tariffs resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from working people into the hands of millionaires and billionaire

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Trump’s tariffs resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from working people into the hands of millionaires and billionaire

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sanitation@lemmy.today to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 8 days ago
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    8 days ago

    Considering he keeps “ending” the war on Iran to play with oil prices while he buys low sells high; makes me think the price gouging followed by tariff refunds was the real goal all along.

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      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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        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.”

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      Yup we known this was the plan for over a year. https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-refunds/

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      Ding ding. We have a winner.

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