Was he actually thinking that those $450 were just gifted by the exporter?
Okay so pretend they are right, pretend that the Spanish manufacturer pays the tariff:
Do you think they will still sell it at the same price if they had to pay $450? They’d just charge you more to cover their fees, lmfao.
Edit: Oh someone here already commented this, oops
Enjoy the tariffs idiot.
I don’t think I could find a Spanish person, except perhaps a child, who didn’t understand the concept of an import tax. How are Americans so goddamn stupid that they don’t understand something that simple.
It’s a tax, in the United States, imposed by the president of the United States, why the fuck would a Spanish company pay it?
Because that’s what the idiot president told his idiot voters and they were too dumb to know he was wrong. They think he’s smart because he has money
Because AFAIK the US republicans dismantled education as much as they could and now they have a bunch of absolute dummies running around.
Knowing DHL, the actual import duty is about half that. The rest is a “brokerage fee” they are charging on top of the tariff. They will not provide an itemized invoice until after you pay. They will not answer any questions about it.
WHOA! This is not what dumpy said would happen! I can’t imagine dumpy would ever lie. So what is going on???
Let’s just say for the sake of the argument that the exporter did have to pay taxes on the purchases. The exporter isn’t going to pay $450 of of pocket. The purchaser is still going to have to pay the $450 taxes.
Aside from everything else, apparently this guy doesn’t understand how “Asking for a friend” is supposed to work.
which is himself.
How do I ask for a friend?
Asking for a friend.
Ive seen that / swim used as ‘totally embarrassed that i was that dumb’ before. I think its that?
Sure, but you still have to respect the form of the statement. You have to pretend that something happened to someone else.
For example: “How would someone remove a 4 1/2 inch cylinder that’s stuck in an m&m minis tube. Asking for a friend.”
Not: “I got my dick stuck in an m&m minis tube, how do I get it out? Asking for a friend.”
Everyone knows that you’re talking about yourself, but you’re supposed to pretend that it’s your friend who’s the idiot.
Maybe they think it means looking/asking for a friendly person.
Could be.
Well, I think everything so far that we know about them point to them not being the sharpest tack in the box.
They’re not even in the box, they were rejected by quality assurance for being so unbelievably blunt
Maybe that Plato guy had a point about democracy damn
Because monarchs and nobles never made terrible decisions?
Not saying the alternatives are better, I propose we be ruled by tiktok monarchs, only those who have properly consumed enough tiktok slop shall be worthy of leading us to greatness.
Democracies are very vulnerable to propaganda. I’m not sure what the solution is, though.
Education is a good solution to most problems.
except it wont work on the anti-intellectuals or “percieved disenfranchised” people.
Obviously if you already failed at educating people that’s hard to fix later. So children education should be the focus.
Yeah but look at how dumb the people who want to end it are. I think it’s just that the powerful are stupid
Maybe op should have bought domestic <niche item only available in Spain> instead of importing it.
lol frfr. these people have NO clue what tariffs are meant for.
When a moron finally realizes he’s been lied to.
the OOP doesnt seem to come to realization yet.
Sure, and Mexico will pay for your wall 🤣
If they don’t want a bunch of refugees fleeing oppression coming over from the United States they may have to
Mr Creopard or Mr Leoparsote?
This is literally how tariffs work. They don’t benefit you. They fuck you in your anus. We tried to tell you.
“But…I didn’t think it would be my anus!”
Leopards at my anus.
Seen that one
For fairness here, tarrifs can be beneficial and useful when specifically targeted at industries which you can compete globally in with commensurate subsidies. In other words, universal tarrifs is the same as shooting your own nuts off, but targeted tarrifs can be helpful in growing specific industries you can grow.
All tarrifs are paid by the population of the country doing the tarrifing, but when it’s well thought out and specifically targeted it can be a good thing.
Lastly, for clarity, fuck trump, what he’s doing is incredibly stupid and will only hurt US citizens.
It’s also incredibly stupid that they tariff components.
If a US company wants to build a dishwasher then they’re probably going to have to buy some parts from China, because the US lacks vertical integration, except they’re not going to because those parts are also tariffed. So you might as well just make the dishwasher in China and pay a single tariff on the whole thing.
Is it possible that the Trump administration is just made up of idiots?
Possible? Donald Jesus Trump or his fapostles idiots? How could it be???
Possible? Donald Jesus Trump or his fapostles idiots? How could it be???
Also: I think it would make more sense for those targeted tariffs to be one of the last steps in creating a home-grown industry, and not one of the first. Rather than slapping down some tariffs and hoping that your captains of industry will build the infrastructure to meet the demand, you’d instead want to subsidize the industry first, and only put the tariffs in place to curb imports once domestic production has ramped up. By applying the tariffs first, you’re just taxing your population with no incentive for change, because the demand doesn’t disappear while waiting for the industry to be built, and the people who might do the building can just pass the import costs on to the consumer anyhow.
Aren’t taxes supposed to be paid according to the “tax incidence”, which depends on the elasticity of supply and demand? (Basically, how easy it is for respectively the seller and the buyer to find alternatives?) I guess that since a lot of products dont have domestic alternatives, US buyers have few alternatives, whereas foreign sellers have many (they dont necessarily have to sell to the US). As a result, yes, the US buyer will be paying most of the tariffs?
It’s all those woke economists’ fault (and literally anyone else who understands anything)!
woke economist
Oof, what an oxymoron 🤣
Wokenomics!
If all the SMART people weren’t so WOKE then MAYBE I’d listen to them and we’d get some ACTUAL WORK done around here!!!
(Sorry to steal your comment, BigMacHole)
If they fucked me in the I’d at least have a good time. They fuck me in the wallet, which hurts a lot and not in a sexy way.
Let them do their own research now.
wish they did 😔
Sadly there are tariffs on those toys too. :(
You have to pay extra to get fucked.
😔
How does this benefit me?
Is the satisfaction of making dear leader and his rich friends richer not enough for you?
I bet he didn’t even say thank you for the opportunity to
führerfurther line their pocketsHahaha thank you for the laugh and not only with the golden call back to Zelenskyy!
There are plenty of benefits - dei is illegal, trans folks aren’t able to compete in women’s sports, brown people are afraid to go outside. Does that supersede $450? You tell me.
He must be a domestic terrorist or something if he’s not unequivocally grateful for the opportunity to personally enrich dear leader!
Bro… dear leader is sending everyone $2000 for how rich the tariffs made him, and he doesn’t even need congressional approval to do so… much like blowing up random boats in international waters and attempting to steal Greenland.
