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SunSeeker

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3. "Taxing the 80% who work in services to support the 8% who work in manufacturing."

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Apr 21, 2025, 12:41 AM

Apr 2025

But Trump’s tariff taxes do nothing to support those decimated in the manufacturing sector. The money is not being used to help build factories. Trump is using tariff revenues as a substitute for income tax revenue, as he basically destroys the IRS. So this is much dumber, and more destructive, than Smoot-Hawley.

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Tariffs upended a booming economy [View all] struggle4progress Apr 2025 OP

Yes, and in nearly every other major country not under dictatorship he would already be toast. Meowmee Apr 2025 #1

It is the intent of Donald Trump to destroy the United States. dalton99a Apr 2025 #2

"Taxing the 80% who work in services to support the 8% who work in manufacturing." SunSeeker Apr 2025 #3