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7/12/2025, 4:16:30 AM
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I know this is /ptg/ and the bar is low, but why say things without a single supporting source?
>“Tariff increases are largely paid for by consumers via higher prices, which erodes growth in net income thereby weighing on growth in real consumer spending,” Wells Fargo economists wrote in a recent report.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/what-is-a-tariff-and-who-pays-it-spoiler-alert-you-will
>Research by economists Aaron Flaaen, Ali Hortaçsu, and Felix Tintelnot found washing machine prices increased by about $86 per unit in the months following tariffs—and dryer prices increased too, by $92 per unit, even though dryers were not subject to the tariffs. Other research has also supported the finding.
https://taxfoundation.org/blog/who-pays-tariffs/
>Critics say poor Americans are hit the hardest, and recent research [PDF] has found that U.S. consumers have indeed “borne the brunt” of the tariffs on Chinese goods through higher prices. Still other studies have pointed to different costs for consumers: with tariffs on their foreign competitors, domestic producers can safely raise their prices.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-are-tariffs.
An aside, this is why you guy do so poorly in all those debates and social experiments when kitted out of your safespaces. You've fundamentally lost or never had the ability to support your arguments in memea. /ptg/ is just a shitposting general, but it did remind me.
Quick Occam's Razor test for you, if you care, if tariffs were so good, then he wouldn't keep delaying them and trying to use them for leverage for "great trade deals." He would've put them all in place on day one, and left them there.
...but he didn't, did he?
I know this is /ptg/ and the bar is low, but why say things without a single supporting source?
>“Tariff increases are largely paid for by consumers via higher prices, which erodes growth in net income thereby weighing on growth in real consumer spending,” Wells Fargo economists wrote in a recent report.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/what-is-a-tariff-and-who-pays-it-spoiler-alert-you-will
>Research by economists Aaron Flaaen, Ali Hortaçsu, and Felix Tintelnot found washing machine prices increased by about $86 per unit in the months following tariffs—and dryer prices increased too, by $92 per unit, even though dryers were not subject to the tariffs. Other research has also supported the finding.
https://taxfoundation.org/blog/who-pays-tariffs/
>Critics say poor Americans are hit the hardest, and recent research [PDF] has found that U.S. consumers have indeed “borne the brunt” of the tariffs on Chinese goods through higher prices. Still other studies have pointed to different costs for consumers: with tariffs on their foreign competitors, domestic producers can safely raise their prices.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-are-tariffs.
An aside, this is why you guy do so poorly in all those debates and social experiments when kitted out of your safespaces. You've fundamentally lost or never had the ability to support your arguments in memea. /ptg/ is just a shitposting general, but it did remind me.
Quick Occam's Razor test for you, if you care, if tariffs were so good, then he wouldn't keep delaying them and trying to use them for leverage for "great trade deals." He would've put them all in place on day one, and left them there.
...but he didn't, did he?
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