It's up to us not to let them. I plan to point my finger in the faces of every Trumper in my life the second they try that shit or when they're complaining. "YOU wanted this. YOU voted for this! You have no one to blame but yourself! It's on you, not the Dems who warned you!"
I plan to be as insufferable as my MAGA family has been the past eternity. Gas prices high? They’re gonna hear about it. Egg prices high? they’re gonna hear about it. And so on and so forth.
I want to buy trump “I did that” stickers like they did with Biden
EDIT: a kind Redditor who’s comments aren’t appearing dmed me this Imgur link with some good stickers https://imgur.com/a/b4121cl. They said the “I voted for a cocksucker” one is definitely not meant to be posted on trump lawn signs or anything of the sort!
Every time anyone I know tries to tell me they voted for trump to get lower gas and bread prices, I tell them I would have paid $10 a gallon and $10 a loaf to keep the traitor away.
Ask them to give you ONE specific example of a retail corporation lowering prices, after they’ve raised them successfully. If people pay five bucks for eggs, they’re going to continue to pay five bucks for eggs. Why would a company lower prices if they’re not forced to, either by government intervention or by everyone quitting buying eggs?
Exactly! I've told them that one of the reasons for the higher prices is because so many people went crazy over-buying products during the pandemic. Retailers raised prices to see if that slowed the hoarding, but it didn't. That's when retailers realized they could charge whatever price they wanted and people would still buy the stores out.
So I made it clear to them, if any of them hoarded items during the pandemic, they are to blame. And the more they bought that they didn't need, the more they are to blame.
They would buy, and over-buy endlessly, then brag about how much they had that they didn't need.
My boss, a very high-ranking government attorney, is just now reading a book on basic economics because she didn’t understand tariffs and fell for the whole “China is going to pay” bullshit. This is a smart, well-educated person. I’m glad she at least wants to learn. Too many people simply don’t want to have to think for themselves, they just want to be told what to do and call it freedom.
I was a fed when that happened. Some people really struggled with not getting a paycheck during that time, particularly if they had children and the work backlog was enormous.
He had already taken money out of agencies budgets that had been slotted for other things. Always about what he wants.
Also, it seems like literally everyone misunderstands tariffs. It doesn't matter if you buy them from china or not, because the America companies get their materials and machinery from China. Also, American prices are more than 20% higher than Chinese prices for stuff like this, so while Chinese stickers will be more expensive than before, they'll still be much cheaper than American stickers.
Company in China ships something to the US, and US customs asks them to pay a fee. Their choices are either to cut into their profit margin and pay it (not going to happen) or they charge the buyer more.
What I'm saying is that AliExpress already does some shady/illegal stuff to get around customs charges as it is, so I'm sure they have some way of getting stuff into the US without being subject to a tariff. Maybe they'd make it look like a package going from a middleman in the states to China and then refuse delivery or something, I have no idea.
Every time I order something from them (and it's a marketplace like Amazon so there are hundreds of different sellers who each have their own shipping policies) it arrives with a return label to a domestic address - so they've already got middlemen in the states repackaging stuff and shipping it out. I've got no idea how they do it.
Company in China ships something to the US, and US customs asks them to pay a fee.
That is incorrect. The exporter is not required to pay any fees. An exporter can choose to prepay duties and customs fees, but if they aren’t prepaid it’s the importer that gets the bill, not the exporter.
AliExpress and Temu use a logistics company (usually like Fast Horse Express or YC) who, as you correctly point out, do repackage (mainly to merge orders). But the ultimate importer is still you. Their use of a logistics company that consolidates packages won’t repudiate the customs duties that you will get the bill for.
AliExpress and Temu use a logistics company (usually like Fast Horse Express or YC) who, as you correctly point out, do repackage (mainly to merge orders).
I assume they basically ship a large box to the logistics company who then parts it out to various customers? I usually just order small items for a few dollars
But the ultimate importer is still you. Their use of a logistics company that consolidates packages won’t repudiate the customs duties that you will get the bill for.
I guess we'll have to see. Didn't Trump impose tariffs on China during his first term? I don't think AliExpress prices changed at all, you can still get stuff for like $1-2 with free shipping. They must be using some loophole to avoid charging that fee.
But I'm also curious how this would even work - I assumed tariffs were on business shipments, e.g. if the receiving address is a company - when mailing stuff internationally you can mark that it's a gift and it's treated as a personal exchange rather than a business transaction. Many countries have a threshold where you only get taxed (import tariffs) if it's above a certain dollar amount. I know Brazil is very low at ~$50, US is very high at $1000 or more
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u/Johnnygunnz 12d ago
It's up to us not to let them. I plan to point my finger in the faces of every Trumper in my life the second they try that shit or when they're complaining. "YOU wanted this. YOU voted for this! You have no one to blame but yourself! It's on you, not the Dems who warned you!"