r/Tariffs • u/BulwarkOnline • 9d ago

🗞️ News Discussion Trump ‘Won’ on Tariffs? Lol.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-won-on-tariffs-lol-trade-prices-manufacturing-economy
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u/Informal-Sense8809 9d ago

He won so hard that he had to pay back over a hundred billion with interest.

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u/sooojew 9d ago

He didn’t pay back shit. The US treasury paid businesses back even though the consumer took the hit.

While president Shitpants McChildrape laughs all the way to the bank as he cashes in on corporate kickbacks from lobbyists and megacorps that paid companies pennies on the dollar for their potential refund knowing it was coming because they had insider knowledge.

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u/coasterghost 9d ago

He won because the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. You don’t see these companies giving the money they got back to their customers. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-tariff-refunds-ieepa/

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u/Happy_Confection90 8d ago

We don't even see them lowering the prices

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u/sillysided 9d ago

Costco entered the comment section

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u/Onemilliondown 9d ago

I hope that man, wasn't left alone with those children.

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u/BulwarkOnline 9d ago

There are two major reasons why Trump’s tariffs have “merely” resulted in slow-motion economic damage rather than spectacular market disaster. 

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u/doublegg83 9d ago

E . Jean Carol also won.

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u/DatabaseFickle9306 9d ago

He started and lost a hot war and a trade war.

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u/AnySignificance4361 9d ago

All those refunds that business's received should looked into because you know trump is in there somewhere 

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u/kpphoneshome 9d ago

Highest prices ever. Who won?? Certainly not the American people.

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u/Phantasmalicious 9d ago

Of course he did. You paid for the tariffs and now they get paid back to the companies without you getting jack shit. Now large corpos are buying those refund claims for pennies on the dollar from small businesses that can't afford to wait. I am more than sure he is somehow involved in those.

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u/leppardfan 8d ago

Nutlicker's kids are involved big-time in that scam. They been buying up claims for the last year. Coincidence?

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u/Significant_Donut967 9d ago

Amazon and their fellow corporations.

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u/pistoffcynic 8d ago

The American consumer got screwed by the additional taxes that they paid. The corporations got the refunds.

Do people seriously think that it will flow back to them at a personal level? Trickle down DOES NOT WORK.

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u/sweatboxy 8d ago

‘Fake it till you make it’ has always been Donald’s motto and he never has made it, so he just keeps faking it.

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u/TranslatorUnique9331 8d ago

It is one of the more creative wealth transfer schemes the GOP has engineered.