🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 03 May 2025 15:13:48 -0400, Governor Swill
<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 01 May 2025 21:29:46 +0200, Malte Runz <nobodys@busine.ss>
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 01 May 2025 12:36:54 -0400, Governor Swill
>><governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:01:32 +0200, Malte Runz <nobodys@busine.ss>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a huge trade deficit with my local super market. It's so
>>>>unfair, so now I've put a 125% tariff on all the products I buy there.
>>>>Worked like a charm. This month I bought a lot less than the month
>>>>before.
>>>>
>>>>I'm kinda hungry, though.
>>>
>>>I'd help out but bread just went up 125%.
>>
>>If I understand Trump correctly, the supermarket is paying the 125%...
>>right?
>
>No, the importer is. ...

I know. I wrote about it here in a.a. over two years ago. Donald
'we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars from China in
tariffs' Trump doesn't know who pays the tariffs, and if the
Democrats, the pundits, the Youtubers, and podcasters had pointed it
out before the election, the result might have been different.

>... The company that imports the goods for wholesale
>distribution to the retail market pays the tariff and passes that cost
>on to the retailer who passes it on to the consumer.

Welcome back, Inflation!

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Malte Runz