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Has your friend, the tariff advocate, finally understood why tariffs are harmful after seeing the results, or does he still not get it ???

The state doesn't want to protect you

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 1d
True but I think that layer of it is still more complicated than we can calculate
ΛM profile picture
It's an analysis of past operations. If you add that the money raised is used for repression, surveillance, or anything else that harms the American people, I understand, but it's no longer a strictly economic cost as presented in the news report. In any case, the result remains the same: the tariffs are being paid by the American citizen, that has always been my point from the beginning
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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 1d
Still better than income taxes. I hate not being allowed to earn income and living in a lying shithole society that pretends I'm the last one for the "non worker" while it makes my work 1000x harder than theirs
🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 1d
Citizens in each country basically pay more than 100% of the tariff cost because the authorities will use the revenue for more harassment of US and other country citizens
ΛM profile picture
I think I understand you, however, the analysis is done on something already paid for, that is, a product that entered with a price X and was sold to the consumer… the expenses are calculated on that entire transaction; you can't pay more than 100%, it's strictly about the monetary costs of that transaction
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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 1d
True but I think that layer of it is still more complicated than we can calculate
🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 1d
But that is more than cancelled out by the increased spending power this gives to the authorities
Raison d'État · 1d
Some people want to identify with a team, and to feel righteous. Some people don't want to blame Statism for the multifarious crimes of States. Some self-described "Anarchists" still hope to arroga...
ΛM profile picture
In that case, recognizing the disastrous economic management of the dictatorship in Cuba and acknowledging that the situation is worse due to recent US measures are not mutually exclusive; it's just that he chose his side instead of being objective… or he lacks information on the matter and only reads propaganda exported by the Cuban government (which I would understand, the government controls the media and from the outside you can have a different perspective)
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Raison d'État · 1d
100%. Choosing one (Statist) side is both a cause and an effect of narrative consumption.
Raison d'État · 1d
Some people want to identify with a team, and to feel righteous. Some people don't want to blame Statism for the multifarious crimes of States. Some self-described "Anarchists" still hope to arrogate to themselves (as an individual) the power over others currently wielded by States.