A tariff is like a sales tax of a kind, and so is paid by the buyer to the government of the country that the buyer lives in. It is particular to the situation of importing something into your country from some other country. Tariffs are imposed by your country upon you to pay when you import something from another country. There may be other payments besides tariffs when you import, other taxes or fees of some sort. Depending on the rules of your country, including any trade agreements between countries, a particular importation by you may or may not involve a tariff. When you hear the phrase "free trade", that has to do with agreements to promote buying and selling between people of the countries by not charging buyers tariffs.
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The idea is a lot more complicated than "China pays the tariffs", there are many books on the topic, I'd recommend Confronting the Dragon by Peter Navarro and Greg Autry.
America has outsized consumer spending, and the goal of the tariffs is to advantage American-based businesses. The corporations that employ our citizens and pay taxes to our government. Yes, those tariffs are passed on to consumers, you didn't debunk anything- that's the point. Consumers will switch to companies based over here to avoid the costs that were just passed to them and our companies would benefit.
By the way, Biden slapped a 100% tariff on Chinese cars. If Trump is an economically illiterate moron for supporting tariffs on China, doesn't that mean Biden is too?
It's not a coincidence the middle class disappeared at the same time as those manufacturing jobs.
Anonymous C replied with this 1 year ago, 31 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,324,884
@1,324,860 (boof)
You started this by making Trump and his followers out to be economically illiterate for supporting tariffs on China.
Changing the subject to the convictions of people on his team is irrelevant to what you said originally. Nice pivot, I guess I made my point if you're dropping that original point in favor of some red herring.
> You started this by making Trump and his followers out to be economically illiterate for supporting tariffs on China.
Reread my post. You are a presumptuous thin-skinned hero worshipper who feels that every bit of information is a personal slight. > > Changing the subject to the convictions of people on his team is irrelevant to what you said originally. Nice pivot, I guess I made my point if you're dropping that original point in favor of some red herring.
> boof (OP) replied with this 1 day ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,324,860 > @previous (you) > not sure how that negates the prison bit