Mastodawn

The grift keeps getting bigger. Tariffs were a way for Trump to extort our trading partners to line his cronies’ pockets.

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saxnot Mar 20

@georgetakei don't feed into the narrative:

> Tariffs were a way for Trump to extort our trading partners

tariffs are import tax
US citizens and companys are paying it.
zero of it is paid for by the trading partner.

Despite this fact so obvious a lot of people incl. the large media outlets are reporting it similar to your toot: repeating the narrative of trump

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Agitatra 🚲🐻🌿🇪🇺🇺🇦

@saxnot @georgetakei Unfortunately, this is only formally true. Many companies here in Europe, who had good and long lasting business with the US were forced to lower their prices, since their trading partners were unable to finance the full amount of the tariffs. So in reality also trading partners abroad paid a part.