Comment by senderista
7 days ago
Well, tariffs are about as regressive as you can get, so I fail to see the contradiction with advocating higher taxes on the wealthy.
7 days ago
Well, tariffs are about as regressive as you can get, so I fail to see the contradiction with advocating higher taxes on the wealthy.
>> Well, tariffs are about as regressive as you can get
I don't know.
I used to be poor, maybe 60% of my income went to housing.
That wasn't imported.
My food was mostly sugar, wheat, corn, and high fructose corn syrup.
Also not imported.
Maybe the car. I had an older car that I worked on myself, but it was made in Japan.
That would be the main one.
The job I had back then is gone, I was a manual laborer and what I did for work in the early 1990's doesn't exist now, it has been automated away.
I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It was shitty work but I didn't have to talk to anyone. Are tariffs going to bring back shitty work for people like I used to be?
Whatever happened to all those losers of the year?