Skylar
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YOU are who is confused.You seem confused. Tariffs aren't 'export business'. Tariffs are taxes and excises on goods coming in.
Trump insists that China paid our tariffs and that we didn't. But they didn't pay. The US consumer pays for the tariffs as the cost of goods FROM china were higher.
Trump doesn't understand how tariffs work. And by extension, neither do the conservatives who polish his rhetorical turds.
The money to make those small portions of the wall weren't paid by Mexico. They were paid by the US government.
Trump doesn't understand how his own policies are being paid for. And neither do his turd polishers.
1. It doesn't matter what Trump calls his MISSION ACT. Fact is, its a successful replacement of Obama's failed Choice Act.
Actually, it matters very much. As the VA Choice act, which Trump insists he passed.......was signed into law in 2014.
Yet Trump in his confused mental state, still thinks that's the one he signed. He says it over and over and again. Trump *brags* about something he never did.
And he wasn't in the White House when the VA Choice Act was passed. Biden was though.
2. Cost of goods from China were NOT higher. No business is able to raise prices, for any reason, without sustaining losses$$ from REDUCED SALES. Chin also lost #31 Billion in exports in first half of 2018 (some people have to be told twice)
So US businesses are paying the tariff by your reasoning. Not China.
Then why, pray tell, does the befuddled Trump keep insisting that China is paying that tariffs when by your own admission, they're paid here in the US?
This isn't a gaffe or a slip of the tongue on his part. This is a repeated claim he's made on numerous occasions.......undeniably demonstrating that Trump doesn't understand what tariffs are.
Except of course, at no point in your explanation did Mexico actually pay for the wall.3. I already explained how Mexico has paid us for the wall. If you don't get it,.. not my problem.
We did.
And yet Trump, in another demonstration of his confusion and disorientation.......insist that Mexico paid for the wall. Alas, the US tax payer did.
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