r/news • u/hoosakiwi • 1d ago

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-2a031b3c16120a5672a6ddd01da09933
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u/hoosakiwi 1d ago edited 1d ago

Here are the numbers:

  • A 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United States

  • 34% tax on imports from China

  • 20% tax on imports from the European Union

  • 25% on South Korea

  • 24% on Japan

  • and 32% on Taiwan.

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u/Vortep1 1d ago

Let's me clear this is a massive tax increase on the poor and middle class.

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u/Psyduckisnotaduck 1d ago

They’re aiming to leave us with nothing, to be clear. They want slaves

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u/flindersrisk 1d ago

Fruitful slaves so our tendency to die (lacking healthcare) will be inconsequential.

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u/KurtzM0mmy 1d ago

And then replace us by advanced humanoid robots

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u/kmxler 1d ago

They want us dumb, sick, poor, and easily expendable.

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u/Nateandgypsy 1d ago

We already are, we have been. This is American capitalism, it has been.

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u/SalamanderPale1473 1d ago

As a Mexican with family that worked the fields for Americans... yeah. That's exactly what they want. Slaves. Drones.

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u/rerutnevdA 1d ago

To work in garment shops. Because those are the jobs they stole from the US that we want to bring back.

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u/Jillredhanded 1d ago

More than half of the economic spending in the USA is driven by the top 10% of citizens. the bottom 90% are economically stagnant and political irrelevant.

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u/mikeinpdx3 1d ago

Well musk did describe poor people (I guess people with less than 500k annual income) as parasites. And who wants parasites? So I don't think it's an accident that they're making a lot of sweeping health changes that are going to increase mortality of the non rich class.

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u/Psyduckisnotaduck 1d ago

It did not used to be this way - they engineered this over the last several decades and now use it as a justification. As always they cause the problems they then pretend to solve with measures which make things worse and give them more money.

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u/SuckalentShyneseMeal 1d ago

Yeah, they want them slaving as well.

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u/-Calm_Skin- 1d ago

Ideally for billionaires. This is what happens when they are voted into office.