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🚨 🚨 🚨 Here’s the thing about these new tariffs: they’re not sticking it to Mexico or Canada; they’re coming straight for average Americans. A 25% tariff sounds tough in a campaign speech, but for the rest of us, it’s a financial sucker punch.
🚨 🚨 🚨 Here’s the thing about these new tariffs: they’re not sticking it to Mexico or Canada; they’re coming straight for average Americans. A 25% tariff sounds tough in a campaign speech, but for the rest of us, it’s a financial sucker punch.
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Let’s start with groceries. You’re looking at an extra $185 a year just to keep mac and cheese on the table. Big-box stores? Those “everyday low prices” will shoot up by 14%. For the average family, that’s $2,400–$3,900 a year, rent, daycare, or keeping the lights on.
And jobs? Forget the talk about “protecting American workers.” These tariffs could kill 684,000 jobs. That’s not saving American industry, it’s torpedoing it. History’s shown how this ends. Remember Smoot-Hawley in 1930? Retaliation, falling exports, and a Great Depression.
Then there’s the fine print no one reads: retaliatory tariffs from trading partners. Your cousin in exports or manufacturing gets pink-slipped because no one’s buying overpriced U.S. goods abroad. Supply chains unravel, inflation rises, and GDP shrinks by 0.8%.
These tariffs don’t punish foreign countries. They punish the folks who can least afford it. While billionaires cheer “America First” from their tax havens, the rest of us are left footing the bill, wondering how much more we’re supposed to take.
These tariffs might sound patriotic, but they’re anything but. They drive up prices, kill jobs, and hurt families. Average Americans end up paying the price, literally and figuratively, while the rich stay insulated from the fallout.
When will this end? We need policies that protect workers and families, not empty slogans and financial sucker punches.
You’ve nailed it again! 👊
Trump is dumb.