“Well, they did sign up for it, actually. And this is what I campaigned on,” Trump said of the tariffs during an interview with ABC News that aired Tuesday.

And you can’t really argue with that.

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    It doesn’t matter who pays the tariff. Anyone with half a brain knows that the cost will be passed down to the consumer either way.

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        Yep. Less than half a brain and less than half a heart. Amd absolutely no self-awareness.

        Socrates would chug a 20 ounce hemlock Mountain Dew just on principle after meeting an average American.

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      If you’re not informed and take Trump at his word, I can see how you might end up thinking the tariffs were a country-to-country transaction, like literally China paying the USA.

      In that case you wouldn’t necessarily arrive at the conclusion that the cost has to be passed on, along the value chain.

      But on the other hand I don’t have a good track record of estimating what uninformed people who don’t care to seek information think…

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        As a non-American it’s difficult to grasp how uninformed the average American voter is. It’s not that difficult to look up what tariffs really are.

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          It’s actually very difficult for them to look up what tariffs are, because they read below a 4th grade level and are functionally illiterate. Most explanations regarding tariffs that I have read seem to assume a European high school level of reading proficiency.

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          Pretty simple, they didn’t give it a second thought because there was never a first thought