• rayyy@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    “He was told the other countries pay the tariffs”, by a bunch of liars and he believed the liars.

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      6 hours ago

      The real hard part is it’s a partial truth.

      The sellers do pay the tariffs, they just don’t talk about what that does to the prices.

      The other problem is it cuts both ways, and a number of the idiots will say as long as you’re hurting them too, fine.

      And then we have retaliatory tariffs, which also cut both ways.

      IMHO, our biggest issue is we’ve been using cheap Chinese products and labor as a crutch instead of increasing wages. They’ve been able to cut down wages because Amazon, Temu and Shein have been providing products WAY WAY under marketable US made prices.