Was he actually thinking that those $450 were just gifted by the exporter?
How does this benefit me?
Is the satisfaction of making dear leader and his rich friends richer not enough for you?
I bet he didn’t even say thank you for the opportunity to
führerfurther line their pocketsHahaha thank you for the laugh and not only with the golden call back to Zelenskyy!
There are plenty of benefits - dei is illegal, trans folks aren’t able to compete in women’s sports, brown people are afraid to go outside. Does that supersede $450? You tell me.
He must be a domestic terrorist or something if he’s not unequivocally grateful for the opportunity to personally enrich dear leader!
Bro… dear leader is sending everyone $2000 for how rich the tariffs made him, and he doesn’t even need congressional approval to do so… much like blowing up random boats in international waters and attempting to steal Greenland.
This is literally how tariffs work. They don’t benefit you. They fuck you in your anus. We tried to tell you.
It’s all those woke economists’ fault (and literally anyone else who understands anything)!
woke economist
Oof, what an oxymoron 🤣
Thanks Obama!
“But…I didn’t think it would be my anus!”
Leopards at my anus.
Seen that one
For fairness here, tarrifs can be beneficial and useful when specifically targeted at industries which you can compete globally in with commensurate subsidies. In other words, universal tarrifs is the same as shooting your own nuts off, but targeted tarrifs can be helpful in growing specific industries you can grow.
All tarrifs are paid by the population of the country doing the tarrifing, but when it’s well thought out and specifically targeted it can be a good thing.
Lastly, for clarity, fuck trump, what he’s doing is incredibly stupid and will only hurt US citizens.
It’s also incredibly stupid that they tariff components.
If a US company wants to build a dishwasher then they’re probably going to have to buy some parts from China, because the US lacks vertical integration, except they’re not going to because those parts are also tariffed. So you might as well just make the dishwasher in China and pay a single tariff on the whole thing.
Is it possible that the Trump administration is just made up of idiots?
Also: I think it would make more sense for those targeted tariffs to be one of the last steps in creating a home-grown industry, and not one of the first. Rather than slapping down some tariffs and hoping that your captains of industry will build the infrastructure to meet the demand, you’d instead want to subsidize the industry first, and only put the tariffs in place to curb imports once domestic production has ramped up. By applying the tariffs first, you’re just taxing your population with no incentive for change, because the demand doesn’t disappear while waiting for the industry to be built, and the people who might do the building can just pass the import costs on to the consumer anyhow.
If they fucked me in the I’d at least have a good time. They fuck me in the wallet, which hurts a lot and not in a sexy way.
I don’t think I could find a Spanish person, except perhaps a child, who didn’t understand the concept of an import tax. How are Americans so goddamn stupid that they don’t understand something that simple.
It’s a tax, in the United States, imposed by the president of the United States, why the fuck would a Spanish company pay it?
Because that’s what the idiot president told his idiot voters and they were too dumb to know he was wrong. They think he’s smart because he has money
Because AFAIK the US republicans dismantled education as much as they could and now they have a bunch of absolute dummies running around.
Nah, that’s no excuse here. This is an adult. I don’t know how old they are, but I was taught about taxes and tariffs in school at two or three different ages. They were a big part of the American Revolution.
Just as planned. And just as planned this gave the republicans more power.
At first you think he may just be naive of how tarrifs work. Which is still true, but it doesn’t explicitly label him as maga.
Then he says this…
How does this benefit me?
And there it is. The selfish attitude that tells me he voted for this exact outcome without a clue what that outcome actually was. Just voted for his team, and didn’t bother with the details. Oh well. Have the day you voted for.
Not only that but imagine if he was right and the seller paid the tariff, does he honestly think they would just eat the loss?
He thinks mexico paid for the wall.
He thinks the wall was fully built years ago in trumps first term.
He believes trump tells the truth.
In other words, he did “his own research”, which consisted of believing his own biases, and confirming them in an echo chamber.
It’s amazing how some people still don’t fully grasp that Trump supporters don’t look at the world, they just look at Trump to tell them what they would see if they did.
no they actually look at fox, and even what some right wing grifter tells them. trump is just there as “eye candy” for these companies and people.
Enjoy the tariffs idiot.
Okay so pretend they are right, pretend that the Spanish manufacturer pays the tariff:
Do you think they will still sell it at the same price if they had to pay $450? They’d just charge you more to cover their fees, lmfao.
Edit: Oh someone here already commented this, oops
Aside from everything else, apparently this guy doesn’t understand how “Asking for a friend” is supposed to work.
How do I ask for a friend?
Asking for a friend.
Ive seen that / swim used as ‘totally embarrassed that i was that dumb’ before. I think its that?
Sure, but you still have to respect the form of the statement. You have to pretend that something happened to someone else.
For example: “How would someone remove a 4 1/2 inch cylinder that’s stuck in an m&m minis tube. Asking for a friend.”
Not: “I got my dick stuck in an m&m minis tube, how do I get it out? Asking for a friend.”
Everyone knows that you’re talking about yourself, but you’re supposed to pretend that it’s your friend who’s the idiot.
Swim?
“somebody who isn’t me”, in a tongue-in-cheek way.
which is himself.
Well, I think everything so far that we know about them point to them not being the sharpest tack in the box.
Maybe op should have bought domestic <niche item only available in Spain> instead of importing it.
lol frfr. these people have NO clue what tariffs are meant for.
Knowing DHL, the actual import duty is about half that. The rest is a “brokerage fee” they are charging on top of the tariff. They will not provide an itemized invoice until after you pay. They will not answer any questions about it.
What you mad at lil bro? that’s called making america great again! Next time you order your equipment from USA 🏈🦅
“But they don’t make it here, everything is offshored.”
“Oh, well, should have thought of that first.”
blocks ears lalalalalalallalaa i cant hear you
Let’s just say for the sake of the argument that the exporter did have to pay taxes on the purchases. The exporter isn’t going to pay $450 of of pocket. The purchaser is still going to have to pay the $450 taxes.
USA USA USA!
Technically corrext US flag You could put the stars as stars on the circus tent
Great idea, be the first to do it if you want.
Cant. Not on my phone
The fact that the distinction of who the fees actually get connected from matters so much to people is so crazy to me. It doesn’t matter who the fees are collected from, you’re paying them regardless. If the exporter pays them they will just raise the price you pay to cover the cost. It also amazes me that so many people who were in favor of tariffs somehow think they wouldn’t raise prices even though that’s literally the entire fucking point of tariffs. They raise the prices of foreign goods to give domestic goods that cost more an advantage.
I’m waiting for Trump to tell him how incredibly ungrateful he is for not supporting Trump’s drive to increase US production/Trump’s bank account.
