A "substantial new source of revenue" the "budget may start to depend on" that will be "hard to quit." IT'S A TAX. Use the damned language, #BrokenTimes. Throw away your thesaurus and get a damned dictionary.
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Tariffs are not only a tax but specifically are a regressive tax.
aug 3, 2025, 1:04 pm • 11 2 • view
Exactly, but I'm sure that we'll get complaints about people who don't understand that message, so how can it be made any easier to understand?
aug 3, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Great question. Maybe very “Tariffs are a tax the rich pay the least.” (Consider that a first draft.)
aug 3, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Argghhh. Missing word. Meant “very simple.”
aug 3, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
If my Congressional candidates started saying, "Tariffs are a regressive tax. The poor pay more. A greater percentage of their income goes to paying tariffs," repeatedly, do you think that would be a clear message?
aug 3, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Every tariff announcement from Trump makes TRUMP money, FFS! He and his minions dump their holdings and then reap the rewards when stocks tank. Why is the media so fucking gullible?
aug 3, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Did you mean to say “complicit” in the pump and dump scheme?
aug 3, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s more or less what I said, but sure.
aug 3, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I love that the people who buy every lie, hook, line, and sinker, are the government’s new tax cash cow, and their perpetual idiocy make them willing targets.
aug 3, 2025, 12:55 pm • 6 1 • view
Trump’s Tariffs aka Taxes take money from working Americans to fund tax cuts for the rich. It’s just another Trump con and the media are stupid or complicit in giving Trump cover. Tariff taxes aren’t revenue. They are theft.
aug 4, 2025, 11:12 am • 1 0 • view
Not just a tax, it's a regressive tax that will disproportionately hit lower income people. It will only partially offset the enormous giveaways to rich people, who don't need it but will recycle some of it back to the GOP.
aug 3, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
And the federal government will only become addicted because it is under control of oligarchs who refuse to pay their taxes.
aug 3, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Unbelievable—yes by all means, kill job growth, send working honest immigrants to prison, take away health care, tariff the hell out of the rest of the world and we’ll pay for the tariff and our taxes. Yes, that’s the ticket.
aug 3, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
It is a tax on us and I can't afford to keep paying these higher prices.
aug 3, 2025, 12:53 pm • 9 1 • view
"A new tax on imports" is just sitting there waiting..
aug 3, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Just throwing this out there but reversing Trump's tax cuts might cover off scrapping the tariffs given that the tariffs haven't paid for the tax cuts?
aug 3, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Imagine them writing this about higher marginal tax rates or capital gains taxes
aug 3, 2025, 12:54 pm • 59 10 • view
It’s an indirect national sales tax on consumers.
aug 3, 2025, 1:09 pm • 4 0 • view
Y'ALL JUST GONNA PAY IT? OR ARE YOU READY TO GET IN THE STREET? The time is well-passed to be making these elected MAGA fear for their lives. It's only fair. Aren't they making you fear for yours? You ok living like one of Dickens' street urchins?
aug 3, 2025, 3:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Really bright bulbs at the @nytimes.com
aug 4, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah yes, and all the failed small businesses, lost jobs & decreased consumer spending resulting from illegal #tariffs will def have no impact on GDP or tax revenue. 🤯
aug 3, 2025, 1:40 pm • 2 0 • view
They’re trying to replace income taxes on the wealthy with a national sales tax.
aug 3, 2025, 1:28 pm • 2 0 • view
We’ve already been down this road before in the early 20th century and it did not in fact make money long term.
aug 3, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 1 • view
What exactly is the federal government doing with this new windfall? Because they’ve dismantled everything they used to pay for.
aug 3, 2025, 12:55 pm • 15 2 • view
Tax cuts for the wealthy.
aug 3, 2025, 1:01 pm • 8 0 • view
Tax cuts for the rich.
aug 3, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Every tax produces revenues. This is no surprise ffs. “It makes money” isn’t the responsible way to evaluate the effectiveness of a tax. Taxing the rich would raise money and be fair.
aug 3, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
If you want to raise revenue with a regressive national sales tax a VAT is the efficient way to do it. Designed properly, it does not penalize domestic manufacturing and exempting necessities coupled with refundable tax credits can offset some of the regressivity. But gee, that's complicated!
aug 3, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
The tariffs are ILLEGAL. Did they mention that?
aug 3, 2025, 1:06 pm • 40 4 • view
It’s a regressive consumption tax, and if our country is depending on it while cutting progressive income taxes we are institutionalizing new levels of oligarchy
aug 3, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly, call it what it is: a tax. No need for fancy euphemisms. Relying on regressive consumption taxes while cutting progressive income taxes just cements oligarchy and hits working people hardest. Clarity matters!
aug 3, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
This is written from an ivory tower somewhere. I’ve already been impacted.
aug 3, 2025, 12:56 pm • 4 1 • view
Tariffs are regressive taxes. Can that be made into a simpler message?
aug 3, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Tariffs are regressive taxes
aug 3, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
They can call it a Victory Tax That worked before.
aug 4, 2025, 8:12 am • 0 0 • view
aug 3, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
The NYT wishes so bad it could just throw in the towel and be Fox.
aug 4, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Call tariffs the Trump Sales Tax. He loves his name on things.
aug 3, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Not just a tax, a highly regressive tax.
aug 4, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Not just a tax, a highly regressive tax.
aug 4, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I like: Lawmakers May Come to Appreciate that Trump's New Stream of Tax Revenue as They Continue to Fund Pet Projects
aug 4, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
They are acting as if these companies are happy to be paying these illegal tariffs to importers - they’re not
aug 3, 2025, 1:12 pm • 5 0 • view
@nytimes.com for the major fail again
aug 3, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course taxes generate money. We the people pay. Wish tRump would quit.
aug 3, 2025, 1:24 pm • 0 0 • view