alt Hacker NewsNo, the foreigners pay the tariffs. Then that foreign money gets spent on childcare and other things Americans need and want.
How many times does Trump need to explain this to you?
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0_gravitas • 04/04/2025
This was not immediately clear as sarcasm, I was worried about my name-sibling
badc0ffee • 04/03/2025
Maybe that's how Trump believes tariffs work, but they are actually a tax on imports, that the importer pays. The importer passes that along to the American consumer.
Other countries are angry about this because it discourages importing from them, and their US exports may go down, or they may have to lower their US export prices. Not because they have to pay a fee or a tax to the US.
No, you as an American consumer are paying the tariffs.