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connorlynch.bsky.social • 2 days ago

all the international condemnation and retaliatory tariffs, none of the revenue

Reposted from Adam Parkhomenko

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hurricanexyz.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean

There wasn't going to be meaningful revenue in any case

bananapantz.bsky.social•2 days ago

1. Turn on tariff
2. Turn off tariff
3. ???
4. External revenue

mattpb.bsky.social•2 days ago

The External Revenue Service

jay2.bsky.social•2 days ago

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Like, if you put 100% tariffs on every single import AND assumed static scoring, that would not get you very far toward funding the modern US government

There's just not that much blood to be drawn from this stone

bananapantz.bsky.social•2 days ago

It doesn’t get you anywhere in reconciliation, no?

You’d have to put them into law, no?

connorlynch.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m sure Josh Blackman would be happy to write an opinion about why his tariff authority extends to imposition of a national sales tax

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well you see the Constitution gives Congress the power to tax, and l'etat c'est Trump, so

bananapantz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is this a Seb Gorka drawing?

connorlynch.bsky.social•2 days ago

Probably enough for a “sovereign wealth fund,” that he’d prob use to finance “the wolf of Pennsylvania Avenue” or something

jay2.bsky.social•2 days ago

The whole Trump tariff game plan reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWveqlDYj4I&t=24s

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