The notion that tariffs are a tax on US consumers is a lie pushed by outsourcers and the Chinese Communist Party.
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So, centuries of statesmen and rulers imposing tariffs to make some goods more expensive and favouring national industries never happened?
Any business would try to (?) its costs on the customers: bakeries rise their bread’s price when energy gets more expensive so why importers wouldn’t make their good more expensive if they have to pay additional tariffs?
From the technical standpoint yes, that’s true. The person importing the good pays the duty to CBP themselves. Except that makes the overall price of the item higher. Who do you think those costs get paid on to. Oh, and most states have this thing called “sales tax” which is paid directly by the consumer. That tax is a fixed percentage of the final price of the item so guess what other tax burden suddenly gets increased. Oh, and simultaneously you make it that much harder for Americans to export goods as well.
Tell us you failed high school social studies without telling us.
Proven facts of history, science, law, or reality in general? It’s because of Chinese Communists!
It’d be funny, if it weren’t for these utter doorstops influencing lawmakers.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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