>MAGA learns in real time that tariffs increase prices for goods and services across the board
Why is it that MAGA is the only demographic that consistently can only learn new information from having to physically experience it, firsthand? I guess, in fairness, all populism is cached in emotion and feelings, but they stand out more since they took over an entire political party.
https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1951851958559703117
https://nitter.poast.org/dieworkwear/status/1951851958559703117

I'm glad to see people admitting that taxes increase prices but is it so much to ask that you apply this lesson to your own policies, i.e. stop advocating for more taxes?

>>512187550 (OP)
Like, we literally did this six years ago, and all of the local/American business raised their prices, too, because competition was reduced. It's economics 101.

It is funny because the left argued for years including on /pol/ that raising taxes does not increase prices. Now the left is screaming that tariffs are taxes and taxes raise the price of goods and services. Most of you niggers do not have a reference to even understand the situation

>>512187550 (OP)
How can a business owner be this clueless?

MAGA are incapable of logic.
>deport our cheap labor and restrict cheap imports
>companies have to hire American workers
>American workers want more money, better benefits, and less hours
*SOMETHING FUCKING MAGICAL HAPPENS HERE*
>Companies don't automate the jobs away, raise wages for even the least skilled jobs, don't raise prices to compensate for increased costs, and remain competitive in international markets
And I guess we all get free coke and Lamborghinis sometime around this point. Fucking goobers.

None of this shit has ever worked.

Maybe you daughter should be happy with 5 dolls instead of 20

>>512187728
>raising taxes does not increase prices
What taxes are you talking about here? Absolutely no one is saying that increasing sales tax doesn't increase prices, that shit is in your head

>>512187919
>deport cheap labor
Illegals are not cheap. They are a lot more expensive than using americans because of the enormous damage they cause everyone and everywhere around them, including to the product they are "helping" create.
They aren't used because they are cheap, but because they aren't taxed. Taxes artificially increases the cost of labor for americans. Remove the tax and you remove the incentive to use shitskins.

>>512187550 (OP)
I reckon it's a generally American thing. It's related to why Americans really struggle with categorisation.

>>512187550 (OP)
The thing that I notice is this is always presented as a tax on producers - "Canadian maple syrup producers reel under 35% tarriff" which is asburd. They continue to sell maple syrup as before. The people who pay the tax are consumers.

>>512187728
Taxes could raise prices, but taxes could be on aything from estate transfers to supplemental income (gambling, royalties, patents, etc). There is fair chance most people wont see a higher cost or inflation from these taxes. Tariffs, however, 100% will increase prices, because they're directly in the supply chain.
You do understand the difference? Right?

>>512187550 (OP)
Just a reminder that pic related is what white IQ looks like and white IQ voted for it. Just in case you might think being white meant something special, was cool and praiseworthy.

>>512187550 (OP)
>he imports
>AIIIIIIE THE PRICE GOES UP
Ofc it will, retard. The only reason he has a business is that he imports, undercutting domestic production and then creating a reliance industry based on cheap slave labour.
Globalism is a fucking cancer.

>>512188041
They’re cheap for corporations since the cost of shitskins is socialized

>>512187550 (OP)
why do you have tariffs on resources/materials like metals? do you even have enough domestic steel production

>>512187550 (OP)
>jack taxes way up
>I wonder what the revenue will go to? Will more people have health care now? Housing? Food banks? Better funded national parks and libraries and universities?
>no we're cutting all that too, in order to fund more cops and more money for Israel
I don't know why Americans tolerate this shit

>>512188353
>>512188477
White IQ strikes again.

>>512187622
They had months to shore up investments and make changes on personal imports.

I make injection mold figurines, importing premade figures was going to become expensive so we had the molds made in Kansas and now make them in my garage. We have better quality control amd can make small batch and not have to sit on cases for a year because a figure didn’t sell

>t. retards don't understand that taxation is theft and inflation is a bullshit hoax and is merely control of resources

>>512187750
>business owner
You have no idea how retarded these people can be
>board of directors:We need to buy CNC machine for our new plant
>me: Ok so here are the offers on all the equimpent and associated costs from leading European brands
>board: too expensive
>me: well here are the more budget friendly options from Bulgaria, Czechia and Poland
>board: too expensive
>me: Ok here is an offer from Ching-chong-ping-pong Insutrial CO.ltd
> board: perfect
>3 months later all the machines are scrap metal beyond repair
>board: but whatabout the warranty service
>chang: NO REFUNDS GWEILO
many such cases

>>512188477
Without them cost of products would decrease rapidly because you wouldn't have to spend huge amounts of tax money cleaning up from the destruction they cause. They are only cheap in the short run.

>>512187728
So you recognize that the left is retarded when they want to raise taxes. But you aren't when you want to raise taxes?

>>512187981
All taxes increase all prices. They always have an impact on the cost of production somewhere.

>>512187550 (OP)
straight to jail for being a traitor

>>512189467
Well, what did you expect from bulgarians? I'm actually kind of surprised really that the machines breaking down to scrap metal wasn't a part of at least one board member's plan to extend their pension by selling the parts to a gyp somewhere.

>>512187550 (OP)
>can only learn new information from having to physically experience it, firsthand?

you still dont understand.
they 100% REFUSE your reality
they will swear down into their grave what you tell them isnt true

but THIS thing? this NEW "UNFORSEEN" thing?
"NOBODY could have predicted it!"
"This isnt what you said its just a new different bad thing that i'm experiancing which has the exact same effect!"

I guarantee you if you ask them what the caus is they will come up wth some long winding and squirming weasel answer to say "well were both wrong and i dont know how this couldve happened"

theyll never admit or agree

>>512190714
>the machines breaking down to scrap metal wasn't a part of at least one board member's plan
Nah it was just the usual chink QC. They lied about every single spec. We had an entire workshop just to rewire the motors. We had shafts breaking, heads warping, controller shitting itself out of nowhere. One time mechanichs pulled out the whole drum and send it to a machinist to center it cause it was 4 degrees offset.
>A lathe's a lathe anon, look how much money we can save. Don't fall for the brand-name meme.