• ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 days ago

    Why do average Americans still rate Trump as better on the economy? It’s certainly nothing rational.

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    16 days ago

    He doesn’t understand the nuances of making policy decisions, so his default answer to stuff like this is to just impose tariffs because that’s all he knows. He doesn’t care to understand and would likely eat the crayons you use if you were to try to explain it to him. He’s just incapable of that sort of mental growth.

    • Wrench@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      I don’t know how you can miss that, though.

      Tariffs on imported goods means the price raises to cover the increased cost to import it.

      Tariffs are a mechanism to encourage domestic production by making foreign competition more expensive.

      It’s literally the opposite of reducing the cost to consumers.

      Trump has to understand this. But he knows his rabid base do not. So he says it like it’s going to help consumers, rather than exclusively the domestic producers that are already overcharging.