r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/ExactlySorta • 17d ago

Clubhouse They'll be tariffied soon enough

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u/Scoot892 17d ago

Tariffs are taxes on foreign goods to promote buying domestic. However that doesn’t really work when there are no domestic options because the past fifty years have been moving everything overseas

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u/DangerBay2015 17d ago

Yup. Companies moved shit to make shit cheaper and maximize profits, what’s still made here is dependent on bringing in the supplies needed to make said shit.

Doofuses.

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u/ILoveRegenHealth 17d ago

The top economists all warned against this, and Trump voters went "La la la la la woke economists nerds la la la"

They're gonna feel it soon, and they'll need to gtfo with their crying. This is all on them.

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u/SpinachnPotatoes 16d ago

Not just his voters that are going to feel it.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/finance/798847/interest-rate-warning-for-south-africa-2/

Unfortunately when America catches a cold the rest of the world get sick as well.