Al<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SeanCasten</span></a></span> <br>logic is not their strong point and they are hoping that nobody will notice. </p><p>keep it simple, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariff</span></a> are a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> on the people of US . We should be calling it the "republican tariff tax" <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RTT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RTT</span></a>.</p><p> It's like the income tax only its on what you buy not what you earn. Not any different than a national sales tax.</p><p>It is also a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/regressiveTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regressiveTax</span></a>, what you pay, as a percentage of what you earn, is higher on <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/poorPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poorPeople</span></a> </p><p>It also allows other corps to raise the price of their goods.</p>