alt Hacker NewsUnfortunately in our hyper partisan, sound bite, climate you can’t discuss the trade offs of tax policies anymore you either support the party line or you’re the enemy.
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MattCruikshank • today at 3:14 PM
It would certainly help if people wouldn't believe flat-out lies.
Like, "other countries pay the tariffs."
No. They don't.
How can we have nuanced conversation about the trade-offs, if the leader of one political party blatantly lies about a fundamental detail of how tariffs work?
600% reduction in the price of drugs?
We can't even start a discussion with people who believe this. At all. They reject any information, even their own knowledge of how numbers work.
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I am European... Tariffs are completely normal here we protect our workers all the time.
It seems I've 'stung the wasps nest' on HN by not denouncing them outright it seems.