Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Thu Apr 17 2025 01:14:00

RM> If you mean about costing the people more, that's what tariffs do.
RM> They make things more expensive for the people who buy them.

MP>> No.  It makes it more costly for those who want to sell here.  There's a
  >> difference.  But people who only studied socialism won't understand that.

DW>So, wait, you don't think those that want to sell here won't pass that cost
  >onto the consumers here?  People who didn't study economics (or business in
  >general) might understand it that way, but that isn't how it works.

MP>In a free market economy, like ours, the cost is passed to the *consumer*.

There seems to be a lot of confusion over how tariffs work.
Trump is putting a tariff on goods as they come into the USA.
Those selling to you don't change anything, Trump just puts
what amounts to a fat Tax on everything imported so his gov't
makes a lot of money off of the Americans who buy those things.

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