Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Study Find Trump Tariffs 'paid almost exclusively by Americans'

Despite claims by the Trump administration, a new study has found that Americans are absorbing about 96% of the costs of President Donald Trump's tariffs.

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"Americans, not foreigners, are bearing almost the entire cost of US tariffs, according to new research that contradicts a key claim by Trump ... The new research suggests the impact of tariffs is likely to show up over time in the form of higher US consumer prices ... " www.wsj.com/economy/trad ...

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-- Rachel Maddow (@maddow.bsky.social) Jan 19, 2026 at 2:48 PM

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Where are the MAGA -------- who claimed American consumers aren't paying for pedo 47's tariffs?

#1 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-19 11:27 AM

No ------- ----. Peter Navarro is a ------- lunatic.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-19 11:27 AM

No ----.

Keep hoping for that $2000 rebate check....it's in the mail.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-19 12:50 PM

No Trumpers on this thread?

Shocking! Shocking I tells ya!

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-19 04:22 PM

#3 If and when SCOTUS overturns Trump's use of tariffs, the federal government will have to refund that $200,000,000,000.00 to corporations.

Not to those of us who had to spend more because of the tariffs.

Nope. That $200,000,000,000.00 will go to the corporations who imported goods and paid the tariffs.

So, you and I paid more for goods over the past whatever months to corporations who paid the federal government the tariffs.

So, when tariffs are refunded, they go back to the corporations, right?

And, will the corporations be sending checks to you and I, because that would be the right thing to do?

LOL!

Just more transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthy.

Almost like it was planned.

And then there's THIS problem:

"A dividend of at least $2,000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone," Pedodent Vladimir Netanyahu Trumpf.

OK, some simple math here (and not MAGA math or with Vernon's calculator)

US Population: 342,000,000

US population minus the 10-15% or so ~high-income~ folk: 300,000,000

So, okay, let's go ...

300,000,000 people times $2,000.00 per person is $600,000,000,000.00.

Tariff collection so far in 2025 has been around $200,000,000,000.00.

But we've already determined that that $200,000,000,000.00 was going to go to corporations, right?

So, where will the $600,000,000,000.00 come from?

#5 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 04:28 PM

There's nothing for Trumpers here, just a dose of reality they're unwilling to accept.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 04:28 PM

#5 I suppose that the $600,000,000,000.00 will come from the same pot of money that Rubio's "offer" of $800,000,000,000.00 to Denmark for Greenland (no takers):

The pockets of tax-paying Americans, today, and their children and children's children for as far as the eye can see into the future.

#7 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 04:35 PM

So, where will the $600,000,000,000.00 come from?

#5 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 04:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

There's nothing for Trumpfers here, just a dose of reality they're unwilling to accept.
#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 04:28 PM | Reply | Flag

Thanks to Republican voters on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, future American generations will be fettered with austerity measures, a terrible quality-of-life, "Social Murder" as Friedrich Engles described it, and a vicious police state-- in essence, permanent feudalism.


#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-19 04:40 PM

#8 Your contributions here, combined with your obvious, excellent education (the clear product of a true liberal education), make for very enjoyable reading.

Thank you, C0RI0LANUS.

#9 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 04:45 PM

#9 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 04:45 PM | Reply | Flag: Thank CUNY, the Harvard of the Proletariat

I just grilled Chicken Tarragon with White Wine, steamed Brussel Sprouts with Garlic Salt and White Pepper, and prepared shredded Japanese-style cabbage salad (Kikkoman Soy sauce only) for my wife; all to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.



#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-19 05:06 PM

#10 YUM!

#11 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 05:14 PM

Dock workers hurled into nightmare as-------------'s tariffs devastate major port

www.rawstory.com

Pedo 47 is killing the ports like they're Minnesota mothers.

#12 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-19 08:42 PM

No shit? ... .sarcasm!

#13 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-01-21 10:40 PM

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