Summary
A Harris poll reveals that 69% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs would increase consumer costs, with many planning purchases ahead of his inauguration to avoid price hikes.
Trump has championed tariffs as a key policy to boost domestic manufacturing, but economists and corporate leaders warn costs will be passed to consumers, potentially adding $2,600 annually to household expenses.
While Republicans are more supportive of tariffs, only 51% think they will benefit the economy.
The poll highlights widespread concern over tariffs’ economic impact, especially amid lingering inflation and financial uncertainty.
It doesn’t matter what they ‘think’. Tariffs will fuck everything up for everyone involved. People’s opinions on this mean nothing. It is like asking people if they think that being thrown into a deep body water with a heavy chain around around your feet will kill. The answer they give is irrelevant. That action will kill you because you will drown. End of discussion.
Headline should read “One third of Americans have no idea how a tariff works”
And most of them showed up and voted for Trump. 1/3rd of adults voting for fascism is all it takes to destroy a country when 70 million people stay home and don’t vote
Well, the other 31% will learn it the hard way.
I upgraded my GPU and bought a bunch of audio stuff that I was gonna wait to pull the trigger on til later. Not taking the chance of not being able to afford it later.
Maybe they should have voted appropriately on Nov 5.
The other third are household pets.
Alternate headline: 1/3 of Americans Functionally Didn’t Receive High School Education
This comment is both fucking hilarious and shittily depressing at the same time. I don’t know which emotion is stronger.
Tbf, I was very ignorant regarding tariffs as a young adult post highschool. But also, we have the Internet, and Google, and as of now we have fucking AI that can ELI5 literally any topic you are interested in knowing more about if you aren’t an ignorant piece of shit. But here we are, America is full of ignorant pieces of shit. Shocker.
The other 3rd are just that braindead
Well now hold up, a little more than half of the 2/3 knew better but voted for it anyways. Id say they’re pretty braindead too.
A little more than half knew better but didn’t bother to vote.
This has been common for so long and 2020 was a fluke with voter turnout. You’re totally right here, people did just not vote but it’s also a result of not giving people incentives that get them to vote. Voting isn’t really easy in much of the US, especially for those working long hours at the start of the holiday season. Biden ran on stimmy checks and student loan forgiveness, Harris ran on small business tax incentives and building a wall. Just like with plastics, it’s easy to look at individual blame here and get upset with the people who didn’t vote but it’s the system that made them not want to vote.
Trump ran on “I’m going to be a dictator” and a third of Americans didn’t consider that reason enough to vote.
Because they voted away the problem in the past right? Hell, it doesn’t even matter that a third of American’s didn’t vote because most of them live in like 4 states. You say that as if it has any real measurable weight when in reality it is a handful of states that had maybe a million or two combined not participate. The type of base you could inspire instead of parading around you’re endorsed by a war criminal.
but they are more likely to vote than the other two thirds.
They are more likely to vote for the wrong team
GM’s stock price is down 8% today.
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate automotive union workers who voted for Trump.
It’s not like the actual workers see any of the money when the stock price goes up…
Yeah, but they are the ones let go when the stock tumbles.
Sounds like a pretty dumb system if the people who actually make the product are only exposed to downside but don’t benefit from the upside. We should probably tear that whole system down.
Gee, sounds like those same people are currently having issues with face eating leopards \○/
They get profit sharing checks. Those profit checks go down when the company is less profitable. Those profit checks go to $0 and their paychecks go to $0 when the company is losing money and has to let people go.
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So 1/3rd of Americans don’t understand how economies work or what a tariff is.
US has lead pipes, piss poor education standards with not enough funding, environmental pollution, bought out media that perpetuates toxic culture
Wut that has to do with anything there saying??!! *cough and wheeze*
The Democrats want to take your guns!
Dude! This is Trumpland! We don’t do reality!
Egad, you’re right! Here, we let reality do us!
Gotta be the same 30-40% that vote trump no matter what he does.
And 20% do, but voted for him anyway…
That assumes that everyone who answered this poll bothered to vote
At this point, with him announcing to all and sundry during the campaign that he was going to do this, not bothering to vote was still a vote.
But you see, the leopards won’t eat their faces!
Tariffs were barely talked about until the day after the election for some reason. So a lot of people learned after the election…
Tariffs were talked about constantly before the election. A lot if people weren’t listening.
But muh eggz
And the other .001% is former president McKinley who Trump assumes is still alive.
They just go with whatever Trump says.
There are 258 million adults in the USA. Almost 77 million people voted for Trump. Which is about 30%.
I think we can all deduce which 1/3 of Americans are too fucking dumb to understand Trump’s tariffs are a bad idea.
What about the rest who were too dumb to vote at all and got Trump as a free gift?
They suck, but not as bad as the people who actually voted for trump? Trump voters are the real evil assholes.
I’m guessing a third are too fucking stupid to know what a third is
But 1/4 has to be bigger since 4 is more than 3!
I’m guessing you already know this… but that is literally the reason why A&W’s 1/3lb burger (launched to compete with McDonalds’ 1/4 pounder) failed lol
They should have called it the 2/6th as 2>1 and 6>4!
I’m still amazed the party that preaches tax cuts, are vocally adding taxes, and they still got votes.
“He didn’t mean it. He was joking.”
“He’s not gonna hurt me, I’m white…!”
“They’re only going after the bad ones.”
All quotes come directly from family that will be affected by Trump’s shit. They couldn’t care less though, because they believe the shit they say. They’ll be fine, it’s just everyone else that’s fucked.
I love how people are debating this as if it’s not a well understood concept. Can’t wait till we get headlines like “1/4 of people belive a bullet to the head might possibly be fatal in some cases”.
https://phys.org/news/2014-02-americans-unaware-earth-circles-sun.html
One in four Americans unaware that Earth circles Sun
It amazes me that Republicans can be supportive of what is a blatant tax grab by the federal government. Trump is basically saying "I’m going to add a federal sales tax on top of the majority of everything you buy to the tune of 25% or more. With China, a lot of that is manufactured consumer goods. But with Canada and Mexico, we’re talking food products, automobiles, natural resources needed by American industries, etc.
I would guess your amazement is because GOP are understood to be in favor of small government, when actually they are favor of doing w/e the fuck they feel like to enrich themselves because their voter base is so fucking stupid they would vote for a rock if you said it would be thrown through a liberals window once elected.
My biggest concern is what will happen when the party that runs on christian nationalism and prejudice (redundant), that has majority control of the entire government, and is flush with tax revenue, is going to accomplish over the next 2-4 years…
Somehow he’ll still have a deficit.
The plan is to have a disturbing deficit, and interest payments are getting really big now.
This is like climate change, it’s not apparently hurting anyone tomorrow so… no one cares anymore.
Pro Tip: If you have any large purchases to make in your life, now is the time.
Also, probably buy a gun because there’s about to be a lot more desperate people out there.
ITT 1/3 of Americans are fucking morons
The other 1/3 of people probably don’t even know what a tariff is.
2/3 don’t know. They’ve just heard enough negative press to agree.
I mean it’s very simple. A tariff is what you pay the government to get stuff released from the port of entry.
You buy a $1000 DJI quadcopter that was manufactured in China, if Trump does his “60% on everything from China” tariff the US government says you have to pay them $600 or it goes back on the boat.
The complicated part of tarrifs is stuff like “are X-men action figures human or non-human toys” because those get different rates. Not what tariffs “are”.
It’s not hard, the country’s just full of uninterested idiots.
The part they refuse to think about is the DJI is just going to raise the price to $1700 to cover. And the fact that there aren’t going to be any local drone manufacturers for competition.
To cover what? DJI isn’t paying anything extra.
If they raise the price to $1700, then the tariff would be $1020 to the US government, again by you, and you would pay $2720 total to get your thing, split between DJI and the port authority.
After they put it on the boat DJI doesn’t care. They have their $1000. If they feel like it they can add the tariff charge and handle that for you, that’s how it usually happens now, but they don’t have to. You’ll just get a letter from the port authority about the charges needed to release your item.
You’re talking about direct to consumer from an overseas store, whereas I think the person you’re replying to is talking about the pricing at a US store?
What’s the difference?
Somebody has to pay the tax to get the items off the boat. Spoiler alert, everyone will pass the cost on to the final consumer.
I believe you’re conflating tariffs and customs duty.
Why didn’t they hear this before the election?
They should have heard about it during his last presidency. They’re too busy playing politics like it’s sports.
shrug
Let it all burn. The worse it is, maybe they’ll get a clue.
