To be clear, if the value of your package is $100, you now only pay an additional $54 in Trumpariffs, before shipping and other taxes, instead of $120.

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    To be clear, if the value of your package is $100, you now only pay an additional $54 in Trumpariffs, before shipping and other taxes, instead of $120.

    “only”

    yea, avoid public outrage over a 54% increase by starting off with a 120% increase. then people will say “oh thank god it’s ONLY 54% now!! thank you dear leader!!”

    americans are so fucking stupid

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      It’s the Black Friday price gouging model. Remember when gas prices went from $2 to $5 in…2008? Everyone was so excited when they came back down to $3 that no one noticed we had a permanent 50% price hike.

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    As predicted, the Tariff Pump & Dump continues. He announces tariffs, the stock market dips and rolls for a while, then he removes the tariffs, and the stock market leaps.

    It’s the ultimate insider trading scheme, in which the participants get to directly manipulate the market at will.

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    This is why one of the first things this administration did was to fire Lina Khan.

    Market corruption all the way down.

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    “slash” is a generous way to spell “forced to backed down like the weak worm you are.”

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    *jerk-off motions*

    taxing the poor is beyond idiocy, which is why this is so perfect for the administration