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>So you willingly accept you're being unnecessarily taxed by your own tariffs?

Trump's stated goal with these tariffs is to bring back manufacturing to the US, a process that would take decades and isn't sufficiently incentivized by EOs so right now it's just a way to fuck yourself in the ass because sufficient substitutions for the Chinese manufacturing infrastructure doesn't exist yet in the US for that process to happen quickly.

Actually, scrap that. Trump's stated goal is to balance out a trade deficit with other countries even though he's also tariffing countries that the US has a trade surplus with.

Actually, scrap that. It's a negotiating tactic for trade deals. He actually doesn't give a shit about local manufacturing whatsoever so all these suckers that voted for him expecting that shit to come back to the US are retards, lmao. But don't fret, as a result of this he has negotiated exactly...hold your horses...it can't be...zero trade deals. Instead Trump opted to do what he always does which is to announce frameworks for trade deals to his supporters to which terms other countries haven't agreed to, or to state that deals that have already been negotiated in the past are somehow a result of his or a mix of both.

Actually, scrap that, tariffs are there as another revenue stream for the US. Only that it's a tax on your own citizens. Also, if it's designed to be a revenue stream that will replace the regular taxation system then it bringing back manufacturing to the US would actually be counterproductive. If companies stop paying tariffs, then revenue cannot be generated through tariffs.

If I, as a German citizen, would get tariffed on shit that my government isn't able to provide a sufficient substitution for, then I assume that what I'm dealing with here is soft-prohibition and/or hidden taxation in which case I wouldn't "accept" it. If they want to tax me, tax me straight up. If they want to prohibit certain products, make them illegal.