Comment by rufus_foreman

>> 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?