Trump lackeys have no idea why they're about to impose the largest regressive tax increase in modern American history

[justaprogressive]

A large across-the-board tariff is about to be imposed because the president is a total crackpot who loved McKinley-era tariffs even before he went senile because he legitimately cannot grasp the concept of a positive-sum exchange. This has left administration officials to come up with some mutually incompatible retroactive justifications for the policy:

President Trump has said that the global tariffs he plans to announce this week will correct decades of unfair relationships and stop other countries from ripping off the United States. But whether the president’s so-called reciprocal tariffs will result in higher levies on other nations or lower ones remains unclear.

The president has described his global tariffs as a negotiating tool that could force other countries to drop their trade barriers to American products and result in more goods flowing across borders.

But the president has also talked about the tariffs as a way to raise revenue for the government and shift supply chains back to the United States. For those goals to be accomplished, relatively high tariffs would have to be imposed, and not dropped.

Those conflicting goals will come to a head this week, when Mr. Trump is expected to reveal the details of his reciprocal tariff plan. Mr. Trump has taken to calling April 2 “liberation day,” saying it will represent the country breaking free of past trade relationships that he says have hurt the United States.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/03/trump-lackeys-have-no-idea-why-theyre-about-to-impose-the-largest-regressive-tax-increase-in-modern-american-history

[Lovie777]

1. Are they that stupid?............

or just do not care.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Conservatives don't care if they are stupid

[RazorbackExpat]

5. To quote John Stuart Mill:

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives..."

[BOSSHOG]

8. Woo Pig Sooie

I’ll Call he Hogs for John

[RazorbackExpat]

9. Speaking of the Hogs,

I heard they had a decent showing in March Madness this year-- maybe their best showing since the 94 and 95 seasons?

[BOSSHOG]

10. Yes indeed

Knocked out Kansas and St John’s. Lost to Texas Tech by 2 in overtime. Good showing.

And the baseball team is once again top 5 material.

[RazorbackExpat]

11. I watched a few baseball games when Norm de Bryin was coach

I lived near the baseball field on Razorback Road. I think the Razorback baseballers were actually Number One in 1987 or 88. They were spectacular, but all the emphasis at the time was on football and basketball

[BOSSHOG]

14. Wow

We lived in Farmington at that time. I used to call some of the games for KUAF when Debriyn was Coach. For me the Golden Age of Hog Sports was the late 70s. Mainly cause I saw it live. I’d doesnt take one long to know I’m a Hog Fan by walking into my garage or basement or office.

[RazorbackExpat]

15. Holy cow!

Farmington was just down the road from where I lived. I'd pass through it all the time on my way to Lincoln, where I had a couple of part-time jobs

[BOSSHOG]

18. My parents lived in Lincoln

From the late 70s through the 80s. I don’t think there was an ARN when I interned at KUAF, late 70s. The campus station is now affiliated with NPR. I did a few chit chat shows. We’d do our best to fill up the airwaves. I doubt our signal reached all of Fayetteville. Bill and Hillary lived in Fayetteville in the early 70s. My wife and I had a great time living in Hogville.

[RazorbackExpat]

19. They used to call Fayetteville "Fayette-Nam" back in the 70s

It was a wild and crazy place back then, with the Dream Merchant on Dixon Street doing a brisk business I think I might have even heard some ads for the Dream Merchant on KUAF. If not KUAF, then certainly KKEG, the most aptly named radio station for a college town

[BOSSHOG]

22. I recall when I was a sophomore at Fayetteville High

My Grandpa, in a very serious tone, told me to avoid the SDS which was “working” on the University campus which was not far from the High School.

And of course Maxine’s Tap Room and George’s Majestic Lounge. Our Good Ole Days. I still have a very colorful KKEG bumper sticker, never used.

[RazorbackExpat]

23. I took the SAT at Fayetteville High

Also went to a band contest there back in '72

[BOSSHOG]

24. Good Lord

I graduated FHS IN 72. Wasn’t in the Band. And a DU shall reunite them.

[RazorbackExpat]

26. If I remember correctly, '72 was the year they opened the NWA Mall

It was a really big deal back then. There was a bookstore there where I'd go to buy a Schwann catalog or foreign language dictionary. My mom liked to eat at Wyatt's Cafeteria, then we'd stop off at the mall after visiting my grandma at City Hospital.

[RazorbackExpat]

16. Were you part of the ARN

the Arkansas Radio Network?

[RazorbackExpat]

12. Speaking of Texas Tech

The only time I ever watched a UofA basketball game in person was at the old Barnhill Fieldhouse in 1971 or 72, when my friend's father took us down there to watch them play. TTech had some player they called "The Snake", if I recall correctly. I don't even remember if we won or lost

[BOSSHOG]

25. We saw Chicago in 82 at Barnhill

And the Harlem Globetrotters. I think the Barn is still being used for events. Maybe Girls Basketball.

[Johonny]

6. Theybare all shorting the market

And will buy stocks on the cheap right before Trump removes the tariffs. Pump and dump

[eppur_se_muova]

17. Not mutually exclusive possibilities. The first may even be a prerequisite for the second. nt

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Well, it IS the best economy in history.

Can’t have that, if Bannon and Miller are going to NAZIfy America for Musk and Thiel to steal.

[dweller]

4. Liberating

us from our $$

😠




✌🏻

[Irish_Dem]

7. They know exactly what they are doing, it is on purpose.

Who benefits and how?

[newdeal2]

20. The wealthy

He’s selling this as a replacement for income taxes. In realty he’s just going to cut taxes for the rich.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Yep. He and his pals will get very rich.

[617Blue]

13. Largest tax Increase In US history - PASS IT ON. *