Was he actually thinking that those $450 were just gifted by the exporter?

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    didn’t understand the concept of an import tax

    That’s why the media uses the term “tariffs” and describes them as being “imposed on {country X}”. That lets the people who desperately want their masters to be in the right to imagine foreign countries are being bullied into writing big checks.

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      1 day ago

      Wow, Thanks for that, I had completely missed this piece of Consent Manufacturing and I tend to be aware of them.