• A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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    28 days ago

    Your own people are most affected by tariffs. And they will add to government coffers.

    That said, they’re a weapon: tariffs will also affect exports to the USA of the other country. In some countries this can be a big enough issue to give in to such threats, in others, not so much.

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      28 days ago

      And they will add to government coffers.

      Generally not much. The economic damage is rarely worth raising tariffs above a fairly low point unless there are issues of economic autonomy at stake.

      We’re not even butchering the goose that lays the golden eggs. More like feeding it to a hungry wolf while our children starve.