If elected, will Trumps 200% tariff plan on imported goods back fire?

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Yes, spectacularly.

No, don’t be stupid. It will be an amazing success like everything else Trump ever touched.

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Livingwell · 61-69, M

Tariffs only affect the importer. They do not affect the exporter. The result is you and I pay more for imported goods. It's a false premise that it helps keep jobs here or anything else. It's like the give corporations a tax break and they will waterfall those savings to workers. They kept every penny and still laid us off and hired foreign workers. All lies.

zonavar68 · 56-60, M

@Livingwell Covid showed how that works. Here in Australia the federal government of the day (ironically Liberal/Republican like Trump's party) implemented something called 'Jobkeeper' which *insured* businesses when nearly everyone was forced out of their jobs and businesses were forced to shut down, but did *not* insure the actual employee's jobs (though it was portrayed as doing that). It was basically facilitating accelerated wealth concentration by the elite (one of the primary goals of Covid).