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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tariffs boil down to nothing more than taxes on imported consumer goods. Consumers, (that’s us) always end up paying every penny of the tarrifs through higher prices. Why doesn’t Trump seem to know this?


17 posted on 04/11/2016 5:43:53 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: Bullish

It pushes companies to return to the US and it also encourages companies to resume making goods in the US....


22 posted on 04/11/2016 6:09:40 PM PDT by JBW1949
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To: Bullish
Consumers, (that’s us) always end up paying every penny of the tariffs through higher prices. Why doesn’t Trump seem to know this?

Oh, he knows it quite well. Trump is a flim flam man, but he is not a dummy.

He also knows that the voters don't know it.

As demonstrated by most of the posts on this thread.

29 posted on 04/11/2016 6:53:20 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon ("I play to peopleÂ’s fantasies." - Donald J. Trump)
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