Anonymous #2 17w

and while we’re at it we should get rid of privatized healthcare, raise taxes on the rich and enshrine better workers protections. i’m sure this fine tangerine toned gentleman would tooootally agree

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Anonymous #2 17w

yeah, but trump is the one who made walmart’s supply costs increase dramatically. isn’t he supposed to be a businessman, and therefore shouldn’t he know that obviously walmart is going to increase prices?

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Anonymous #2 17w

I’m ngl “putting pressure” on companies is not gonna work. If Trump actually didn’t want companies to raise their prices then he should have made legislation to regulate them and force them to keep their prices down.

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Okay girl whatever. Loved the explanation as to why

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Idc have you seen how much profit Walmart makes? Idc about what some “far left” senators think. I’m saying what I think. Walmart can absolutely, positively, no doubt afford to not raise their prices but they don’t want their profit margin to go down even a tiny bit. So we should make them

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These price protections are already a thing on so many types of goods like renting, homes, and construction materials The point of a policy like that isn’t to put a limit on how much the company can raise prices overall, but to set a consistent ratio of profits so that companies don’t price gouge (the thing Walmart is currently doing)

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Anonymous #5 17w

Walmart makes money because they sell millions of items a day for VERY little profit. It’s the volume of sales they’re making money from not because every item is super marked up. The current tariff on China is 30%. There’s absolutely no way Walmart could just “afford to not raise its prices”. It’s barely profiting a couple of percentage points per item.

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Anonymous #9 17w

That’s literally not true? Walmart has a 100%+ Upcharges on all of their products Also I feel like you aren’t understanding me here, ofc Walmart can still change their prices, but price control policies would make them maintain a certain profit ratio ie, they can’t raise prices unless their posts go up, which is happening under tariffs

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Anonymous #9 17w

There was this issue during Covid where, and though costs of things were going up, the increase of consumer prices was significantly higher than it could’ve been because companies took advantage of the uncertainty to triple profit margins Any good financial leader would implement a policy to restrict this, but trump is a fucking idiot who doesn’t care abt American consumers

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Anonymous #7 17w

100% up charge on all products? What reality do you live in? If that were the case local mom and shops could EASILY compete. When you add up all the overhead of maintaining a store and paying employees Walmart is pulling less than 3% per item they sell. They just happen to sell millions of items daily

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Anonymous #8 17w

Everyone in here saying “just do what the president says” is missing the point. He fucked up. He campaigned on lowering prices for people even though his policies would explicitly do the opposite, and now that it’s coming to fruition he realized he’s backed himself into a corner. Now he wants to manipulate the market in a way that would have repubs melting down if literally anyone else did this

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Anonymous #5 17w

It’s not that they can’t lower profit margins, but they will not unless legally forced to do so. If your boss asked you to take a 25% pay cut because their car broke down I’d bet you opt to keep your pay the way it is. Kamala actually ran on forcibly lowering the post-pandemic price gouging because prices never dropped and profit margins increased. You voted for prices to go up.

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Anonymous #16 17w

lol is that the way right wing propaganda is moving? There’s no such thing as “winning” a trade war. Both countries always lose, the only thing you can do is crush one country more than the other

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Anonymous #2 17w

but they’re going to anyway💀 Yea trump can say anything, but HE KNOWS that those companies aren’t going to do that, because he wouldn’t do that lol. it’s just to make everyone say “see trump is trying to help us”

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Anonymous #4 17w

He’s hoping people don’t realize this and continue to blame the companies that have been doing fine for years lol

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Anonymous #17 17w

Oh boy i hope his using companies as a semi-scapegoat doesn’t backfire

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Anonymous #7 17w

Net profit margin of 2.5% AVG - I.e 40x lower than you think

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Anonymous #7 17w

So then what’s the problem

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Anonymous #22 17w

It costs more money to produce in the us, which will raise costs. That’s why production was sent to other countries in the first place

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Anonymous #21 17w

You crush your own country for the gentle ego of an obese, elderly rapist

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Anonymous #15 17w

It wouldn’t cost more to produce if there’s a tariff on another country?? Do you not know what protectionism is??

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Anonymous #10 17w

There are tears in my eyes bro this is cracking me tf up😭😭😭😭

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you sound like a hater bruh

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Anonymous #4 17w

Business man who went bankrupt 4-6 times 😭

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Anonymous #25 17w

Business man who is still a billionaire… and became president… and is world famous… and who we’re currently talking about while no one knows who we are…

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Anonymous #22 17w

Nobody knows who I am but plenty of people know who Herbert Hoover is. Being the president doesn’t automatically make you a good one lmao

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Anonymous #5 17w

Its obvious you’re into dictatorships, but this is a civilized society. As he said, ceilings for medicine make sense. But trying to stronghand a private company isn’t very smart nor is it how we do things in America. You might find a China or Russia more suitable to your preferred style of governance.

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Anonymous #28 17w

ate him right up

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Anonymous #12 17w

Wow. Fucked up just like the former president concealing the fact that he had cancer and was on androgen deprivation therapy; which includes medications that cause cognitive impairment. Yikes.

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Anonymous #28 17w

Remind me how that’s a bad thing again? Of course he doesn’t want to concern the public with the fact he had a cancer that’s more than likely going to kill him within the next year or two. What’s Donnie’s excuse for his mental decline? His obsessive cocaine use from the 90’s?

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Anonymous #11 17w

He was “making decisions”, supposedly while being cognitively impaired. Decisions that affect the whole country. Sounds like a threat to the integrity of our nation to me. And Donnie isn’t the one freezing and seizing on stage caling Putin the vice president. 💀

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Anonymous #28 17w

Even if he was making decisions while under the impairment of his medication, Trump is doing literally the exact same thing, minus the valid excuse, times 100. You’re acting as if kneeling down and milking Putin dry over the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, accepting the largest foreign “gift” in history, and dismantling the integrity of the constitution isn’t a threat to national integrity?

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Anonymous #11 17w

Trump isn’t on a neurodegenerative medication. Hope this helps you fucking muppet. Blocked.

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Anonymous #2 17w

You don’t know who Donald Trump is?

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Anonymous #11 17w

That’s right scurry away you little gutter rat

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Anonymous #7 17w

How so? China is paying a higher tariff than before, and we are now paying a lower tariff than before? Tf do you define as a win 🤣

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Anonymous #16 17w

Except that tariffs only serve to hurt both countries bc they discourage trade, and there are also no viable manufacturing alternatives for the good tariffed All that a tariff on China does is make US companies raise prices on US consumers

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Anonymous #16 17w

We were paying a 2.5% tariff on all Chinese regulated goods during Biden’s presidency. Trump, being the smart little nepo baby he is, increased those rates to 30%, resulting in a 27.5% up charge going right to the consumer. Please tell me how tf we’re paying a lower tariff at all?

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Anonymous #22 17w

Except that there’s no possible way for a US company to ever match the prices of foreign goods, not to mention that we don’t have a the real estate or workforce to supply that kind of operation

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Anonymous #7 17w

If we make the price of foreign goods higher than we will be to compete with the (currently) low prices, not to mention we’re making trade deals with countries like Ukraine for rare earth metals, and the UK where they buy our cars and theres a cap on how many cars they can bring here. What happens is we make deals to get things for us while bringing in more revenue, and those that don’t comply get cut out of the deal and don’t get some of the benefits of doing trade with the US

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Anonymous #22 17w

US companies rely on foreign resources to produce American made goods. “made in america” just means assembled here. we do not have every resource necessary to make everything here. we do not have the climate to grow everything here. so the goal may be to buy American products, but it now costs more to produce bc of the tariffs

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Anonymous #18 17w

So you missed the part where I said we’re making trade deals to get goods that we can’t produce here, but to be clear we have plenty of materials here to build in America, the tariffs though are mainly being used as leverage to lower the tariffs that have been placed on us, so we can have fairer trade, Japan had a 700% tariff on our rice, we’re gonna work it out so stuff like that doesn’t happen. Canada had a 200% cap tax on dairy from us. Using tariffs as leverage will allow us to renegotiate

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Anonymous #22 17w

Maybe Japan has a 700% rice tax on us because we don’t produce rice so Japan wanted to seal in their market? Like we would get almost nothing from “renegotiating” these deals, which could take decades, and trump is hurting so many small businesses in the process

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Anonymous #22 17w

It really sounds like you’re just gobbling up whatever right wing slop propaganda gets shoved in your face. Maybe listen to the overwhelming majority of economists and people who actually know what they’re taking about when they say that there’s no winner in a trade war

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Anonymous #7 17w

I was using rice as an example, and you say they tariff us to protect their markets but you can’t understand why we have tariffs to protect our own? You might be an idiot buddy 💀 lets say for instance we get a lot of cars from the Europe we put a tariff on them because we can make our own cars here and make more jobs for us here, which is why companies like Rolls Royce said they will make cars in America, the same way we put business in other countries they can do the same and put business here

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Anonymous #7 17w

Its not right wing slop its basic economics, there are winners in trade wars when we’re charging China a 27% more on tariffs and they’re only charging us 2% more, it’s literally not right wing, because Biden kept the Trump tariffs on China, are you talking about the same Economists that said these tariffs would cause a recession?? Now they’re saying it wont??

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Anonymous #7 17w

And one more thing it doesn’t take decades to renegotiate, we already have a new deal with the UK, we’re in the final steps of making one with India, we’re made one with Ukraine, and we’re making one with China.

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Anonymous #7 17w

Literally using an appeal to authority instead of seeing whats actually happening, exactly like this headline 🤣🤣

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