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Well, tariffs are about as regressive as you can get, so I fail to see the contradiction with advocating higher taxes on the wealthy.
by senderista 2y ago
Well, tariffs are about as regressive as you can get, so I fail to see the contradiction with advocating higher taxes on the wealthy.
- rufus_foreman 2y ago>> Well, tariffs are about as regressive as you can get I don't know. I used to be poor, maybe 60% of my income went to housing. That wasn't imported. My food was mostly sugar, wheat, corn, and high fructose corn syrup. Also not imported. Maybe the car. I had an older car that I worked on myself, but it was made in Japan. That would be the main one. The job I had back then is gone, I was a manual laborer and what I did for work in the early 1990's doesn't exist now, it has been automated away. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It was shitty work but I didn't have to talk to anyone. Are tariffs going to bring back shitty work for people like I used to be? Whatever happened to all those losers of the year?