Posted on 07/09/2025 12:33:20 PM PDT by Twotone
From us!
“From us!”
Not necessarily. Distributors and Retail can eat the costs, find internal efficiencies to lower their overhead cost. If inflation doesn’t tic up then I’d say it’s a win / win.
We can always buy American. :-)
When you have a debt load of 37+ Trillion, that is 0.3 Trillion.............
Very good.
Someone gets math on this site.😉👍
Winning
True, not even a drop in the bucket. But how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
And our deficit driven uniparty will spend an extra $100 for every dollar collected.
It’s an appreciable dent in the deficit.
Beats nothing.
That's not how it works. The importer still faces a competitive market. The foreign suppliers also have to keep production going scaled to their capability in order to offset fixed costs. There is a limit to how much they can raise prices in response to the tariff and end up eating much of it.
IOW it is a tax, but much of it is on the supply chain, not the buyer. That's why prices have not risen in direct proportion.
You can buy an American car or Japanese model made in the US but when steel and aluminum tariffs are at 50% prices are going up a few thousand (at least). More expensive replacement parts and repairs also causes auto insurance to spike for everyone (AGAIN). Because Japanese don’t want to buy American cars which aren’t even marketed in the country ?? We’ll see how long this stays in effect.
I don’t know. The only person who actually balanced the federal budget is Newt Gingrich.
He says it will take as much as 5 years to balance the federal budget.
I think it could be less because the stock market just made what is know as a golden cross. that’s the point where moving averages turn positive. Analysts say these crosses usually correspond with massive increases in the stock market.
These massive new stock market returns provide a vast pool of new funds to the federal treasury.
Don’t buy, don’t pay. Who pays corporate income taxes?
Wait, you’d rather that revenue not come in?
This is not free money. It’s a tax that will be paid by domestic consumers, retailers or consumers.
“From us!”
Not necessarily. Distributors and Retail can eat the costs, find internal efficiencies to lower their overhead cost. If inflation doesn’t tic up then I’d say it’s a win / win.
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The Marxist view is that those Americans don’t count when gains and losses are weighed. Is that your view?
That is impressive! It takes 1,000 billion to equal a trillion; that could significantly reduce our debt.
“The Marxist view is that those Americans don’t count when gains and losses are weighed. Is that your view?”
I care about the consumer, if that makes me a Marxist in your dim eyes, so be it.
This is not free money.
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Understood. But it does help to reset thinking. More Americans will buy American made products, boosting our own economy. Other countries will re-think their own tariff policy. As with all things, there’s the good & the bad. It may be that positives will out-weigh negatives.
Nope. Suppliers eat it. They want our market.
Happened in 2017 too.
Prices a coming down. Inflation is closer to 2% which is normal.
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