Posted on 11/27/2024 9:43:22 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Yesterday, it was CNN scaremongering Trump's tariffs, absurdly claiming they would raise Walmart prices by 250%.
Today, it was Morning Joe's turn to trash Trump's tariffs. The show ran a segment on the tariffs featuring Hallie Jackson of NBC News. Every point Jackson made about the tariffs was negative.
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Jackson offered her notion of an economics lesson:
"Remember, tariffs are a tax on things other countries send here. And those other countries don't pay the tax directly. It gets passed down to companies instead—and often to you.
That last warning was accompanied by a finger literally pointing at the viewer [see screencap.] Shades of the wartime recruitment poster of Uncle Sam pointing a finger and saying, "I Want You." Except in this case, it was Jackson suggesting "Donald Trump Wants You—To Pay Higher Prices!"
So, Hallie, taxes on companies often wind up getting passed down to individual taxpayers. Huh! Funny, we don't remember Morning Joe making that point regarding Kamala's huge proposed increase in the corporate income tax!
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I’d offer them a different finger.
Fighting back isn't starting anything. Perhaps, fighting fire with fire will entice some of them to lower tariffs on U.S. products. As Trump often says, they need us more than we need them.
Joe & Mika are going to go into the dust bowl of history when MSNBC is sold and changed to a different kind of TV network. There is no money in a TV network that gets 500k to 1M viewers per hour.
Too bad they don’t explain ALL taxes lumped on businesses, get passed down to YOU!
So now the political Left are suddenly experts on takling inflation? Me thinks we should continue to mock then incessantly.
Saw it. The Morning Joe ‘horror’ was “Trump’s tariffs could cause inflation to go up ONE PERCENT”. Yep, one percent. My first thought was ‘what the hell did Biden do to make inflation go up 20%?
Put a Tariff on Morning Joe for every word that comes out of his/her mouth ,LOL
How come raising taxes on domestic corporations never increases the price of goods that we need to pay according to the liberals?
They don’t understand the Art of the Deal but it will work out just fine.
I can imagine this conversation:
Hallie Jackson: Tariffs are bad!
NBC News: We are going to outsource your job.
Hallie Jackson: We must have tariffs!
“...raise Walmart prices by 250%...”
If this happened, say goodby to Walmart....
A momentous occasion, for the first time in recorded history liberals have admitted that corporate taxes get passed on to the consumer. Oh the humanity!
Of course they are probably too stupid to realize that and/or will just lie about it when it comes up later.
They don’t like the truth when it points to taxes they like, but want to use the truth about taxes ONLY when it points to some tax they don’t agree with, or that they merely want to disagree with for political purposes.
Yes, any tax of any kind that hits companies gets passed on to some degree or another to what the consumer pays. Too bad they don’t admit that with corporate income taxes, excise taxes, property taxes and all sorts of government “fees” that hit businesses.
Coming from the party that never seems able to connect that their desire to raise corporate taxes would similarly just be passed on to consumers. Weird.
“It gets passed down to companies instead—and often to you.”
And income taxes and other taxes levied on me, whom are they passed down to?
The market decides which country pays the tax. It is a pay to play in the biggest market in the world.
If prices don’t go up 250% will he quit his job?
He may not have to quit with the direction MSDNC is going or if Elon buys it...
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