Jeff Jarvis
Even the WSJ Editorial Board: "Tariffs are advertised in the name of helping American workers, but what do you know? They turn out to favor the powerful and politically connected."
On Tariffs, It’s Good to Be Tim Cook
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/on-tariffs-its-good-to-be-tim-cook-5b8f05ad?st=M1eyn7
Apr 13, 2025 at 11:25amWeb
Show threadJeff JarvisApr 13, 2025
More from the pissed WSJ: "The exemptions also expose the fiction that foreign exporters pay the bulk of tariff costs. If that were true, China would absorb the cost and U.S. consumers wouldn’t pay more. No exemptions would be needed. Mr. Trump wants the exemptions to avoid the political blame for rising prices on high-profile products."
Show threadAlexanderVIApr 13, 2025
@jeffjarvis does this fiction still need exposing? Are basic facts so difficult to ascertain? Is everyone taking crazy pills?!?!?
Show threadGed MaheuxApr 13, 2025
@jeffjarvis Of course. Trump wants his tariff cake and to eat it too. Cant do that with an $1800 iPhone. These exemptions also expose the lie that the goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States. What a load of bullshit.
Show threadDisplay NameApr 13, 2025
@jeffjarvis I don't know who is naive enough to think that acting close or giving $1m for the inauguration is enough to get the tariffs exemption. That $1m made these idiots a mark. They are paying. Who knows where, into what offshore account or who they have to allow into their Corp board as a member but they are paying. They will be squeezed until they walk away from those companies or become mere puppets.
Show threadSueDiOhApr 13, 2025
@jeffjarvis This would have been better to have run in, say, mid-2024, but what do I know? WSJ is run by the powerful and politically connected so...
Show threadDavid ReidApr 13, 2025
@jeffjarvis Trump only does what benefits him.
Show threadBob HarveyApr 13, 2025

@jeffjarvis

Exceptions are, of course, corruption.