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> Almost all the comments acting like this is some truth bombshell, like people in trumpistan all thought raising tariffs magically made the us economy better.
by ceejayoz 10mo ago
> Almost all the comments acting like this is some truth bombshell, like people in trumpistan all thought raising tariffs magically made the us economy better. This is a straw man, no?
No. It isn’t.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/fact-check-trump-vance-tariffs https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/fact-check-trump-van...
> “She is a liar. She makes up crap … I am going to put tariffs on other countries coming into our country, and that has nothing to do with taxes to us. That is a tax on another country,” Trump said.
> Vance said in late August that as a result of tariffs Trump imposed during his presidency, “prices went down for American citizens.”