• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    5 days ago

    What’s annoying and nobody seems to grasp is that even if the tax was on the foreign producer instead of the domestic consumer, the end result would be the same thing. They wouldn’t just eat the cost lol.

    • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      This becomes so obvious when the tariff is over 100%. The supplier is obviously not paying 125% of the sale price in taxes.