Posted on 04/05/2025 10:08:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Yeah? Then what’s your beef?
Excellent point.
And just like that, the New York Times is suddenly for cutting taxes. The desperation is building.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/heres-what-trump-really-up-high-stakes-tariff-gambit
Has this clown’s nonsense been fact checked? Everything has to be fact checked these days. The far left media had gone on a massive lying rampage.
They love their $125.00 flat screen TVS made with 15cents an hour cheap labor.
But its not the same. With tariffs you have a choice …. Some options. You can minimize the impact of tariffs if youre smart and have some degree of initiative. Taxes? Not so much.
The insurrectionist dems have their orders from the Kenyan serpent:
Scare tactics on tariffs
Violence in the streets
Attack Tesla
Portray illegal aliens as victims
Start WWIII
But taxes on American corporations do not raise prices.
The New York Times is like a box of chocolates. You never know what your going to get next.
I could click the link, but why? The Slimes is behind a paywall as it should be.
Secondly, there is no doubt in my mind they are ignoring the truth of how tariffs work.
They’re looking at half the equation. Trump is imposing reciprocal tariffs. Say France has a three hundred percent tariff on California wine. He’s imposing a similar tariff on French wine. The French drop their tariff, he drops our tariff.
The problem for the EU is they have the value added tax. So, every step from planting the grapes, to harvesting them, to shipping them, to fermenting them, to transport, again, to bottling, etc. gets taxed. That way the French don’t realize the level at which they are taxed. An American wine comes in without the VAT and it’s hugely cheaper than the French equivalent. The French wine sales would crater. To comply with what Trump wants they’d have to redo their entire tax scheme. Then there’d be riots when the French find out how much they pay in taxes. (Popcorn! Stat!)
Taxes cannot be avoided. Tariffs can be.
When I worked and even now in retirement I have MANDATORY
income taxes.
Put a 100% tariff on an imported car. I don’t care I’ll
buy a good used one here and pay no federal tariffs.
Y’all see the difference? in one case I have no options and in the other I have choices.
Most people like to have choices.
Trump should just say he is making corporations “pay their fair share” - after all, Democrats for decades have claimed higher business and corporate taxes are needed and supposedly aren’t passed on to consumers.
"Economists" can't even predict the correct number of jobs that are created or lost from month to month. For instance, "economists" predicted 131,000 jobs would be created in March and the actual number was 228,000.
And don't even get me started on "some" GOP lawmakers.
Republicans like to cut taxes? We’ll find out later this year when the Trump tax cuts are reviewed for permanency.
And, as usual, the same names come up: Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Graham.
Corporations do not pay tariffs. Consumers ultimately pay tariffs.
Good point. Trump has an excellent sense of humor. Use their language against them. The problem is so many people, including, sadly, many FReepers would take that seriesly.
One of the complaints the U.S. has about the VAT in many of these countries is that exporters are exempt from many VATs on materials they use to produce EXPORTS.
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