He is exceptionally stupid.

That’s the thing about spending 70 years lying and having someone else fire anyone that disagrees…

You start believing it all.

Same shit happened to Elon and loads of other rich people, they stop getting real feedback and understanding that they’re being lied to.

The honestly believe their own bullshit, and they just don’t know how to react to the truth.

We saw it with the interview about the ms13 tattoo, trump doesn’t even know how to argue anymore, he’s used to everyone just agreeing with him, so when they don’t his only argument is “why aren’t you saying what I want you to say, do you not understand what I want you to say?”

Because that’s the only time they hear what they dont want to; when the person talking to them is confused about what they want to hear

I was convinced of that from the start. The language he used, I’m pretty sure he’s under the impression that the country you levy a tariff against is the one that pays it. Basically “make Mexico pay for the wall” part 2.

he treats them like his court cases, he thinks tariffs are a way to bully people to do what you want. he has no idea the economic implications of it. also hes doing it as a behest to putin.

This just happened to adafruit too

https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/05/08/high-tariffs-become-real-with-our-first-36k-bill/

This is one of the most glaring problems with tariffs. Companies raise their prices and the tariff becomes basically a tax on the people. But within that is hidden the fact that gigantic companies can often hold off on raising prices because they have the money to deal with it in the short term and the massive markets to pull in discounted prices from suppliers. The result is humongous businesses like Walmart keep their prices low through the tariffs while your mom and pop shop down the street has no choice but to raise prices or go out of business cause they don’t have the kind of margins bigger companies do. They raise their prices, everyone flocks to huge businesses like Walmart who kept their prices lower, then mom and pop close up shop cause they aren’t selling anything at the higher prices. Then Walmart can do whatever they want cause they just tagged tariffs into the ring and murdered the competition. Tariffs have their place but they largely suck ass in a multitude of ways.

It’s a welcome diversion from the weekly “MAGA meltdown.”

Yes.

Maybe you should study history, we’ve always been incredibly disapointing.

8647

Thoughts and prayers.

The good die you, and pricks live forever.

Socialism is only bad when the left does it.

No

His uninformed voters buy it.

It’s that simple. That and Trump is used to bullying.

He’s a narcissist. Walmart is making him look bad by highlighting something bad he’s done.

except they can pass on too much of the cost, otherwise people wont buy thier crap.

But cantaloupe are only orange on the inside. tRump is, as far as we know, only orange on the outside.

8647?

Live life as best you can as God fearin’ mountain folk?

Give him more money so he’ll leave him alone? Because that’s exactly what they’ll do.

That or fund the next right wing religious nutjob that’s worse than Trump but loyal to them.

Well you see the problem here is that you’re using your brain and well we just can’t be having that

That seems convoluted but also as stated it wouldn’t be a wash.

A deduction means pretend that portion of income never existed and the taxable portion of it is not charged.

Then generally the deduction has to be above the standard deduction to make sense to use, and the standard deduction is just so high nowadays.

So if you claimed a hypothetical deduction of 1,000, then you reduce your tax burden by only 200 or so, assuming you otherwise had like 20 some odd thousand in deductions to get you close to the standard deduction.

The only way it would be a wash is if it were a refundable tax credit with no qualifications, and that almost never happens for anything. I could imagine a non refundable credit that would make it a wash for anyone with sufficient tax liability.

However, this would make the tariffs an utterly pointless needless complication, needing a whole lot more accounting by sellers and consumers just to get to a similar and simpler position of not doing the tariffs in the first place.

Canada tried that with a carbon tax

People weren’t able to understand the two were related

The goal seems to be replacing of federal income tax with import tariffs (like it was in the 1800s). The flat rate they set could collect as much as the income tax if import levels stay the same. Also, some of the stats shared by the administration early on on collections per day would multiply up to the total income tax collected. Writing them off would be counterproductive.

The only downside with consumption taxes is that they are regressive. People in the lowest income levels will end up paying more percentage richer people because there is so much that rich people can consume from overseas vs poorer people.

Ironically, the Economy was one of the number one concerns among voters during the election. People blamed Biden for the stores raising prices, while the Biden admin actually investigated major grocers over artificially high prices, and then elected Trump who is actually responsible for raising prices.

Captain dipshit said he’ll be watching and so will the customers. So? The price will go up from the tariffs. It’s like he struggles to be this much of a moron. I feel like he’s so stupid that I get dumber every time I have to listen to him talk.