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CousinIT

(12,515 posts)
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:54 PM Mar 2025

SHitler's tariffs are a direct wealth transfer from the poor/middle class to the billionaires

WHO pays tariffs?

YOU do.

Where does the money go?

IT goes into the US Treasury and from there INTO BILLIONAIRE’S POCKETS IN THE FORM OF TAX CUTS for the wealthy.

Why is SHitler doing this to all of us? THAT’S WHY.

It’s a DIRECT TRANSFER OF WEALTH FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS & POOR TO BILLIONAIRES.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/where-does-tariff-money-go/81375235007/#

A revenue tariff is a type of tariff that is imposed on imported goods with the primary purpose of generating revenue for the government. It is different from a protective tariff, which is designed to protect domestic industries by making imported goods more expensive.

SHitler *claims* his tariffs are intended to bring industries back to the US.

I seriously doubt that. They are intended to make US peons pay for billionaire tax cuts.

This ON TOP of destroying all of our government agencies that serve us, protect our lives, homes & and incomes so the money that funded them can be given to the billionaires, instead.


THE ENTIRE THING IS A MASSIVE HEIST.

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SHitler's tariffs are a direct wealth transfer from the poor/middle class to the billionaires (Original Post) CousinIT Mar 2025 OP
One of the reasons Trump irrationally loves tariffs -- he wants his cut. Intractable Mar 2025 #1
He's skinning it right off of OUR backs to give the $$ to Elon & other billionaires. CousinIT Mar 2025 #2
You are damn right! Intractable Mar 2025 #3
Got to pay for those tax cuts for billionaires. usonian Mar 2025 #4
Everything he does is a scam on us Meowmee Mar 2025 #5
It's a tax hike on 99% of the people crud Mar 2025 #6
Tariffs will not increase revenue. This is a well BootinUp Mar 2025 #7

CousinIT

(12,515 posts)
2. He's skinning it right off of OUR backs to give the $$ to Elon & other billionaires.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:59 PM
Mar 2025

It’s fucking ROBBERY.

usonian

(25,086 posts)
4. Got to pay for those tax cuts for billionaires.
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 12:04 AM
Mar 2025

The real reason Trump is waging a global trade war
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220120961
https://www.democraticunderground.com/111699882

EVERYONE pays to feed the wealthy, and some die.

Bernie tells it straight. No auction paddles, just straight truth.





Get the complete collection:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219770873

BootinUp

(51,268 posts)
7. Tariffs will not increase revenue. This is a well
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 12:34 AM
Mar 2025

Understood reality. So the scenario you paint fails almost immediately when the economy nosedives.

Don’t try to sell conspiracy theories. Stick with basic economics that the CEOS understand.

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