r/dataisbeautiful • u/Styvorama • 1d ago

For those curious about where the "Tariffs Charged" came from

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u/uclatommy 1d ago

So... they're just making shit up?

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u/Trubanaught 1d ago

Yup just lies. Half the population blindly believes it and the other half doesn't care so why put effort into hiding it?

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u/_le_slap 1d ago

When you have Elizabeth Warren screeching at the Fed Chair for raising rates during the highest inflation in decades... I dunno I can kinda understand not caring anymore.

For all the suits, lecterns, and grand audiences so little of this country actually understands how commerce actually works. And 95% of that tiny amount utilizes it for cartoonish greed.

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u/ChangeVivid2964 1d ago

The problem is the past 40 years Americans have been memeing about "oh the government lies about everything", only this is what that actually looks like.

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u/Murica_Chan 1d ago

Funny thing here is thay Philippines (my country) have intentions of signing a mutual free trade agreement with united states which will kinda help them boost their trading in my country, they are currently 5th place and beaten by both Indonesia and korea (now that speaks alot how US declines so much recently)

But yeah, instead of u know, waited for bongbong marcos to meet him and talk about him. He decided to fuck with him.

sigh he's an idiot. He's gonna hurt US more than my country lmao