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Tariff Isn't Tax on Other Countries?🤪
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this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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The most charitable argument for Trump would be that foreign businesses reduce their prices such that the price paid by their US customers is the same as before the tariffs to remain competitive in the US market, but I think most MAGAs literally just never thought about it.