Trump is intending to turn the tariffs into a sales tax to replace the income tax. This place a monumental amount of the tax load on poor and middle class Americans. The tariffs do not show up on your receipts or your tax return, but it is a huge economic burden nonetheless. If the republicans manage to make a case for getting rid of the income tax, it will be very difficult to reestablish it.
We cannot allow republicans to control the narrative on this. We need to stop talking about tariffs and taxes like they’re two separate things. TARIFFS = TAXES. Repeat this over and over again on all media platforms.
Originally Posted By u/BeneficialNatural610 At 2025-04-27 02:04:23 PM | Source
When Trump introduced tariffs on washing machines in 2018, domestic makers not only increased their prices to match foreign made products, they increased the price of dryers too (since they are often bought together).
These policies are inherently anticompetitive (think of tariffs as a handicap applied to foreign corporations and products) but in practice they’re more likely to favor large coporations over small.