$3,500 iPhones?

[Anonymous]

Some democrats want to increase corporate taxes while claiming tariffs are bad for consumers.

Who wants to tell them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some democrats want to increase corporate taxes while claiming tariffs are bad for consumers.

Who wants to tell them?

There's a difference though - corporate taxes are based on profits (and thanks to Trump it's a flat 21% - there are no brackets). Tariffs are based on imports. There are companies out there that import goods but are barely turning a profit. You could keep them in the 21% bracket while restoring higher brackets for higher-earning companies, and a corporate tax increase wouldn't affect these companies at all. But these tariffs, which do not factor in a company's profitability, would put them out of business.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, Dementia Don caved. I guess Lutnick was wrong when he said that Americans would be screwing tiny screws into phones. You know those peasant jobs aren’t going to MAGA after all.,

This is tragic, I spent all of last week learning to screw tiny screws, what am I gonna do now?

Learn to unscrew them and repair them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some democrats want to increase corporate taxes while claiming tariffs are bad for consumers.

Who wants to tell them?

There's a difference though - corporate taxes are based on profits (and thanks to Trump it's a flat 21% - there are no brackets). Tariffs are based on imports. There are companies out there that import goods but are barely turning a profit. You could keep them in the 21% bracket while restoring higher brackets for higher-earning companies, and a corporate tax increase wouldn't affect these companies at all. But these tariffs, which do not factor in a company's profitability, would put them out of business.

The point is, anyone who says corporate taxes don't get passed on to the consumer is stupid, hypocritical or lying ( or a combination of those).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some democrats want to increase corporate taxes while claiming tariffs are bad for consumers.

Who wants to tell them?

There's a difference though - corporate taxes are based on profits (and thanks to Trump it's a flat 21% - there are no brackets). Tariffs are based on imports. There are companies out there that import goods but are barely turning a profit. You could keep them in the 21% bracket while restoring higher brackets for higher-earning companies, and a corporate tax increase wouldn't affect these companies at all. But these tariffs, which do not factor in a company's profitability, would put them out of business.

The point is, anyone who says corporate taxes don't get passed on to the consumer is stupid, hypocritical or lying ( or a combination of those).

Similarly, anyone who says corporate tax reductions get passed on to the consumer or the employee is stupid, hypocritical or lying ( or a combination of those).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some democrats want to increase corporate taxes while claiming tariffs are bad for consumers.

Who wants to tell them?

There's a difference though - corporate taxes are based on profits (and thanks to Trump it's a flat 21% - there are no brackets). Tariffs are based on imports. There are companies out there that import goods but are barely turning a profit. You could keep them in the 21% bracket while restoring higher brackets for higher-earning companies, and a corporate tax increase wouldn't affect these companies at all. But these tariffs, which do not factor in a company's profitability, would put them out of business.

Except a major goal of tariffs is to prevent dumping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some democrats want to increase corporate taxes while claiming tariffs are bad for consumers.

Who wants to tell them?

Dems also want to increase taxes on the wealthy, and provide more services to the poor.

Rs want to increase tariffs, pass that cost to the consumer, and also gut services to the poor.

[Anonymous]

^oh, and cut corporate taxes enriching the already rich people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some democrats want to increase corporate taxes while claiming tariffs are bad for consumers.

Who wants to tell them?

There's a difference though - corporate taxes are based on profits (and thanks to Trump it's a flat 21% - there are no brackets). Tariffs are based on imports. There are companies out there that import goods but are barely turning a profit. You could keep them in the 21% bracket while restoring higher brackets for higher-earning companies, and a corporate tax increase wouldn't affect these companies at all. But these tariffs, which do not factor in a company's profitability, would put them out of business.

The point is, anyone who says corporate taxes don't get passed on to the consumer is stupid, hypocritical or lying ( or a combination of those).

Similarly, anyone who says corporate tax reductions get passed on to the consumer or the employee is stupid, hypocritical or lying ( or a combination of those).

+1 that doesn't happen. They do stock buy backs with the cash they are flush with. I've only worked in the private sector, and saw this happening at several companies.

[Anonymous]

when will prices rise?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Americans have had a good life for a long time, they had no idea how good it was because majority don’t travel and can’t compare. They are about to find out soon.

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Some of you are just dying for this to happen, aren’t you.

The MAGA sure are since they voted for all of this. They apparently do not want to keep their businesses in business. The paper straw guy is out of business or close to it. The soybean farmers lost their biggest customer--China. Seems not to be working out.

A million small businesses were bankrupted under Biden. Snall businesses are not wishing for Momala’s “leadership”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Americans have had a good life for a long time, they had no idea how good it was because majority don’t travel and can’t compare. They are about to find out soon.

Can you imagine if just one day in his life, Trump woke up and tried to make things better for Americans instead of looking for brand new ways to make everything so much worse.

Trump 47 is literally a gift from the likes of you. You gave us this and set us up for what's happening. If only you cared about Dem constituents in the last 4 years, but you ran away with the madness of your stupid culture revolution, identity politics, money printing and fluffing up of asset prices and enriching billionaires, and pissing off more than half of the population with asinine Covid measures that had nothing to do with science. Dems successfully executed massive wealth transfer started by Trump 45. Shall I say, congrats?

If they cared about the working poor as a whole rather than specific identity groups they would have trounced trump. They ignored their working class base. Now the parties have once again switched demographics as they do every other generation.

Bingo. But they didn't just piss off working classes. They also pissed off a bunch of liberals over the last 4 years

Dems also lost the middle class. It’s now the party of upper middle class blue cities and also the party of the welfare class. The coalition of has shrunk. At least the number of trans folks has increased. And they mostly vote Blue. But will it be enough?