$6 trillion ??? So if most Americans are not going to buy imported stuff anymore cuz it will cost too much, are US companies still going to buy imports and pay the tax, knowing that a lot of consumers are boycotting them already ?? Who's gonna pay 50% more for a car ?? or 25% or more for a house?
…and then the US economy collapses because there’s so much stuff the US can’t/won’t produce itself. Meanwhile the rest of the world avoids what it did buy from the US wherever possible because there’s at least one other place to get it from and why the hell would we buy it from Trumpistan?
POV: It’s a nagging thought that wont subside. Is it possible that his actions are intended to purposely cause uncertainty in the market, which always causes devaluation of stock prices so the wealthy can be stocks cheap….Just a thought. He is not an honorable man.
It’s kind of like that old thing was said I’m gonna build a wall in Mexico will pay for it. I’m gonna charge other countries that tariff and they’ll pay for it and in the end it’s America who pays for it.
During Trump's first term there was a meme going round to the effect that Mexico should pay for the wall, Canada should pay for a wall in the north and the rest of the world will chip in for a lid on top. Kinda prophetic now.
All will be spent to alleviate
the tax burden on the rich.
Who will, in turn, create good jobs here when wages are as low as they were in Asia when executives offshored manufacturing to chase cheap labor to enrich themselves.
Also trump hates losers, he always heel turns when someone in his base fails him. So there’s a real chance we see a monumental meltdown when Trump ditches his ass.
What is the tab to date for all this insanity? The golf, the unnecessary jetting around the world with a half witted cabinet? Bombing Houthies? Stock market crashes? Wasted farm produce? People dying? Loss of allies & our own scientists? Wasteful Insanity.
Wasn't there some lady last fall who was telling us every day that Trump was threatening a tax on all of us with these tariffs? Of course she was Black, so too many people thought they didn't need to listen to her.
You know how people say, "I hate to say I told you so." Well for all the Trumpies who are now having buyer's remorse, told ya so. No hate included. Just, told ya so.
But, NOT THE RICH! This is why income taxes were established because the rich DIDN'T PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE, like Elon Musk! Musk doesn't want higher taxes because he is PAPER RICH. LOSING MONEY EVERY DAY WITH HIS STOCK CRASHING. #DeportElonMusk #saveourcountry
So that is how they plan to fund the billionaire tax cuts?! Instead of making the billionaires pay their fair share. A handful of people benefit, while others suffer. Very #Christian of ya, Republicans. 😡
We talk about this like we aren't going to feel the loss of everyone of those dollars as they are transferred to the selfish, sycophant class. They who've tried to fill their empty souls with all the things money could buy, and still, they are sad and alone, aware of their nobodyness. Fkn losers all
I’m just curious. I by this time have usually completed our tax returns. I am having the hardest time even thinking about doing anything that involves this banana republic, especially taxes. Anyone having the same issue?
My ex-pat wife, who has lived in UK for almost 25 years, pays almost $900 a year to a US accountant to file a tax return that says she owes no tax to the IRS🤦
Trump was talking tariffs before the election and all the economists warned us all. He sat at the Economic Club of Chicago on 10/15/24 and spouted his BS and folks like Dimon got right behind him because Goldman will make money either way.
The democrats should be shouting this from the roof tops day and night, because worshippers of the Golden Calf will never understand, unless they take a business class of some sort...
Cory Booker demonstrated - DEMs need more spectator politics. That is just how it is to get voters onboard. Spectator attention grabbing politics every day... Jasmine Crocket and Jared Evan Moskowitz get it... hammer it home tax tax increase every day every where
Yeah, "Make America Great Again" by making Americans have to pay MORE for everything, but not increasing anything such as pay rates so Americans can actually afford to pay for it!
I swear, I wouldn't be surprised if we got into another Great Depression because of the tariffs.
Meanwhile, Putin giggles maniacally as Xi snickers aloud at hearing the US economic news. Agent Trump is doing an outstanding job of sowing chaos and destruction in the USA.
An average household's cost is $5000 per year!
The answer is working more jobs obviously, 3 to 5 jobs isn't going to cut it!
What about fruit picking & farming jobs?
Oh wait, those businesses bankrupted didn't they? 😏
Making people poorer to buy more and later be better off when the market stabilizes. We must stop being such a neoliberal whimsey bootlickers and do smt
That money will fuel a 6T tax cut for the ultra wealthy, the Marie Antoinette moment for the US, the largest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top in World history.
if you think that somehow making all this stuff in the usa is going to end up costing the same or less, well, you probably believe that trump has your best interests at heart too lol
And he's still exploiting their ignorance by foisting his false rationale of "reciprocal" US tariffs that are kinder and gentler than what exporting nations charge the US. In fact, their purported "tariffs" on the US (see Trump's bogus chart) in most cases are just...
It’s supposed to drive us into a depression, so that his fascist desires have more buy in when people become absolutely desperate for anything to survive.
The real question is what is happening to the money. I have not seen anything that explains how/if the money is included in the budget (if the Rs every get one through or if they continue with CRs forever.) A serial bankrupter should not have access.
There's no way people just stayed home during the most consequential election in american history. There was voter suppression and intimidation, ballot boxes burned, bomb threats at polling stations, one polling station per thousands of people...this election was 100% corrupt at its core.
Are Liar Racist Felon Criminal Dictator Trump, CEOs and US Companies in USA going raise their minimum wages and pay more to their employee's making things in USA, to US people can buy things make in USA or they are going still pay the same low min wages the other countries do???
Yeah but Trump has his money in the bank. The investors took the hit. Standard procedure for "The Art Of Them Deal". Oh and he bankrupted 2 other Casinos along with The Taj Mahal
Thanks. I just shared that on my Facebook for all my family & followers & told them “For all of you who voted for Trump because of higher prices now they’re about to get a whole lot higher. I hope you’re happy!”
They still won't believe it. I think we could have a second Great Depression with people literally starving in front of them, and some of them would deny it. "You know you can't believe what the mainstream media says."
It sounds bad, but you have to realize, this is going to help the rich stop paying taxes completely, and then that money will trickle down, just like it's never done in the history of ever.
The Lying King says tariffs are good for the economy!
But what he is doing is illegal that’s the homily!
The stock market is plummeting thanks to him!
The only one making money is Muskrat, The Lying King and their friends!
Maybe if before the election the media had pointed out foreign countries aren’t the ones paying the tariffs… instead Trump’s lies were allowed to stand so people are just now realizing Americans pay the tariffs
Feels like a left-winger like me who wanted more taxes paid used a Monkey's Paw. So, all those people talking about lower taxes under Trump, enjoying more money in your wallet now?
What did people think was gonna happen? Well, the people who voted for this? I would argue that anyone who bankrupts a casino is an idiot. If they bankrupt THREE casinos, there's no more argument. This man is not a financial mastermind. Or ANY kind of mastermind.
He switched nothing! He told voters what he was going to do, and people voted for him, voted for a protest-third candidate or did not vote at all. This American carnage is on each of those group members' bloody hands
Senate voted that Trump cant declare an economic emergency to stop the tarriffs. The bill went to the US House where Speaker Johnson declared this year is "1 long day" & there is an economic emergency so Trump has the power to do the tarriffs & wont let it come to the floor for a vote. Dictatorship.
Trump said Europeans should be sold substandard planes and weapons in case they are at war with the US. Trump has aligned himself with European enemies and has actively been helping Russia to defeat Ukraine. And slapped punitive tariffs on Europe and not Russia... see a pattern emerging???
What are we doing to save money??
-Cancelled Amazon Prime
-Eat less beef
-Less eating out
-No more shopping at Target for clothes, hit the thrift stores
-Renewed our Costco membership to buy in bulk and do less
impulse buying
-Buy used books from a local store
-Buy less soda and candy
Lol? More like rice and frozen veggies.. I aint got no peanut butter money? Rich man over here.. with his peanut butter AND jelly. Prolly eats it on bread too.
Can you read? What are *we* doing to save money. We as in OP and their family. Those items listed add up to real savings for a household. If anyone looks “beyond stupid” here it’s you for misinterpreting then being a dick about it.
An excellent list.
What I would add is a general boycott of fast food franchises.
#BoycottMcDonalds &tc
Hit the large corporates. Instead
f8ind a local cafe, burger bar, luncheont counter.
Support local businesses.
Costco is the biggest impulse shopping destination. You go in for a ton of peanut butter and leave with a case of dumplings that they were giving out samples of and a pallet of TVs.
Americans cover the cost of import tariffs ⏩ Tariffs go to a government department ⏩ That government department = the bank accounts of Turnip and his vile posse of miscreants.
The tariffs are also almost guaranteed to destroy the American economy, naturally. One of the main points. A gift for Vlad.
The tariffs could actually be called an import tax. 'Tariffs' is a nice way of saying it.
And the government department that collects the cash is the treasury department, but it will make it to the bank accounts of Turnip and his miscreants via tax cuts for the rich.
Let's figure out how many additional days the median worker will have to work in order to compensate for his loss of revenue. That's 600B yearly tax by 160M households divided by 1300 median weekly salary times 5 days a week. So about 15 days per house of hard labor to pay 400K tax cuts to .1%
Canada just rang me up and wants our products instead of the US alternative. This is going to hurt Americans more than anybody else. Even Germans buy my stuff more now since we are made in Germany….
Well only 6 Trillion. And the forecast error might be another 25%. That’s about 7.5 trillion. Just to get our arms around the number. It’s 7.5 followed by 12 ZEROS. Now the Orange Felon has a brilliant economic staff. They have been using AI for some time. Yes ARROGANCE & IGNORANCE.
And not "reciprocal" either like he kept saying ... UK and US have trade balance (some years slightly towards US, some other years slightly toward UK) and yet still wacked UK with 10% tariffs. So he lied again, as usual.
Australia buys more from US than it sells, so by Trump’s analogy Australia is “giving” money to US, but tariffs were still imposed. The penguins even have to pay them (according to how tariffs work in Trumpland)
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All will be spent to alleviate
the tax burden on the rich.
Who will, in turn, create good jobs here when wages are as low as they were in Asia when executives offshored manufacturing to chase cheap labor to enrich themselves.
Hope we have ten cent coffee by then.
America versus a rogue terrorist state masquerading as an American political party.
It'll just destroy the poor and middle class and widen the already '19th century robber baron' levels of wealth inequity.
Self poison pill.
The largest transfer of wealth to the fewest number of people
Ever
https://youtu.be/yuOHbyuanbY?...
T declared an international emergency and his actions are tanking the world economies.
No tariff on Russia .. but we got Heard and McDonald Islands.
You get what you vote for.
…but, but her emails.
…but, but immigration and crime.
Triple decker nothing burger
Americans?
I know I can't wait to be a serf.
This will require less employees.
We will lose our jobs and have no money.
The fat orange gluttonous rat will spend millions to go to Mar a Lago on weekends.
Invite his friends.
And they will laugh at us.
While we suffer.
I swear, I wouldn't be surprised if we got into another Great Depression because of the tariffs.
"'So much pride... so much plotting...' and I don't say another word, I just stare at him, eyes open, until he's gone."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/trump-tariffs-global-stock-markets.html
The answer is working more jobs obviously, 3 to 5 jobs isn't going to cut it!
What about fruit picking & farming jobs?
Oh wait, those businesses bankrupted didn't they? 😏
Gee, how's that going?
Fucking sham journalism.
In reality, when a nation like the US exports less to a country than it imports from that country, it simply means the US is more affluent.
"Did not vote" wins almost every election in this country.
we'll be demonized for "not working enough" and "40 hours is part-time work, real men work 60 or more"
Who needed that money anyway?
But what he is doing is illegal that’s the homily!
The stock market is plummeting thanks to him!
The only one making money is Muskrat, The Lying King and their friends!
it keeps getting worse
i mean....
:/
-Cancelled Amazon Prime
-Eat less beef
-Less eating out
-No more shopping at Target for clothes, hit the thrift stores
-Renewed our Costco membership to buy in bulk and do less
impulse buying
-Buy used books from a local store
-Buy less soda and candy
We found we can get Two dinners and weeks worth of lunches out of them
Just a fyi if it helps
You his new mistress?
What I would add is a general boycott of fast food franchises.
#BoycottMcDonalds &tc
Hit the large corporates. Instead
f8ind a local cafe, burger bar, luncheont counter.
Support local businesses.
Fat fingers, teeny tiny k'board.
The tariffs are also almost guaranteed to destroy the American economy, naturally. One of the main points. A gift for Vlad.
And the government department that collects the cash is the treasury department, but it will make it to the bank accounts of Turnip and his miscreants via tax cuts for the rich.
They call that 'efficiency'.
These are the architects of this exact point! PLEASE READ AND SHARE!!
Cult
Will not even get it…they are lost.
My blood may be calling me home after all.