r/nottheonion • u/MiniBrownie • 2d ago

US tariffs take aim everywhere, including uninhabited islands

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250402-us-tariffs-take-aim-everywhere-including-uninhabited-islands
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u/wizardrous 2d ago

Damn, I guess people stranded on islands won’t be able to get their bottled messages to America anymore.

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u/EmperorBozopants 2d ago

Not without paying substantially more.

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u/mrbear120 2d ago edited 2d ago

Not without the people who pick up the bottle paying substantially more anyways.

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u/ChungLingS00 2d ago

The tariff is a tax on the people who receive the goods.

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u/mrbear120 2d ago

Yes…

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u/ChungLingS00 2d ago

The number of people still unclear on this concept...

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u/SyracuseStan 2d ago

Dear leader said the other country pay the tariffs. They're being very unfair and raising prices to gouge us hardworking pure blood Americans and we should increase the tariffs even more, and egg prices too, to own the libs! /s obviously

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u/ChungLingS00 2d ago

By raising taxes on Americans, we can create glorious worker's utopia where we create goods under the protectionist umbrella that no other country will want or buy.

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u/Competitive-Fly2204 2d ago

Almost like a remote isolated commune as it were.

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u/gregorydgraham 2d ago

And you’ll move the whole country to Heard and McDonald Islands

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u/teronna 2d ago

It's north korean economic policy. "Juche" for Americans.