but the suckers keep buying it.

and taxing assets in Swiss bank accounts. IRS is already doing this, if the GOP would just fund the IRS.

We have no sovereignty over what foreign citizens, companies do in their own countries.

The importer is the business here in America that brings the foreign goods in. They are filing taxes here anyway, they are registered here, they are generally subject to laws here, etc.

Collecting the tariffs from them is simple and obvious.

The foreign company is some random foreign entity dropping off goods and going home. Why try to collect the tariff from them? If they manage to evade it, we have no recourse.

Basically he's proposing switching from a system that makes sense and works to a system that doesn't make sense and is guaranteed to break, all because he prefers the optics of collecting the import tax from the seller instead of the buyer.

Stupid, stupid, stupid,

If anyone wants to remove goods from Customs, they have to pay any tariff. Even if this great negotiator could convince the exporters to pay them (LOL), we don't need a new agency to collect them. It appears that he thinks he can tax the exporters directly. And not only does he not understand tariffs, all this nonsense is because he also doesn't understand what the balance of trade means -- he thinks it means Canada is cheating us out of $200B a year, and we're "subsidizing" all those cheaters. Of course, all it really means is that they buy less from us than we buy from them.

No matter how many times he gets told how tarriffs actually work he thinks they're wrong because he thinks he's smarter than experts because his yes-men and sycophants keep telling him he is.

Felon's Direct Income Con

Just watch him!

He is here to F**k us over and steal us blind.

This who tariff scheme is just a shakedown - exceptions will be given to most companies on an individual basis that personally pay him bribes, buy Trump Media stock, or buy his scammy cryptocurrency.

He wants to make bribes a normal part of doing business with us.

He will be bringing back Ivanka and Jared to run the department, like they did being in charge of all the PPE supplies during Covid........
I doubt anyone will ever know how much the two of them and Daddy made off of that goldmine.....

Then, Jared, Trying to out do his FIL, got over TWO BILLION more for a few hours work delivering Top Secret Military Intel to the Saudi's who rewarded him quite handsomely....

Since he did so well with his trip to Greenland.

and his brother were just put into the Crypto Business by his father.....

"Dare to be devoted."

tax for licensing name use only on buildings since the name itself doesn't generate jobs. In fact, one could argue that certain names might create a security risk for the local community causing a need for extra public policing. That cost should also be covered by the private entity responsible for the need.

He’ll want his cut, for having created such a brilliant idea!

cause that's what it is

Trump is lying, but the "journalist" presents what he says as though he weren't.

Tariffs and duties are not "revenue from foreign sources."

The Reuters article is a textbook example of "bothsidesism" in journalism.

Trump says foreign nations will pay.

Senator Ron Wyden says the US public will pay.

One of those two statements is true, one is false. The article ignores that critical fact and eve gives more weight to the false statement.

Hilarious! As more MAGA idiots are learning that THEY will be paying for the Tariffs, he has to tell them to their face one more time, how STUPID he thinks that they are (and, he's not wrong).
Wow....I mean, wow.

California will be rebuilding with higher priced construction materials due to tariffs.

Chump screws California by making it too expensive to rebuild.

Trump will just declare all forests in Oregon and Washington open for cutting with no regulations.....

We all know just how much he loves Blue States...........

He will rationalize it as saving the forests from burning like in California.......

I hope no one in Trump's CABAL reads DU's posts and comments.....

will collect the money from Mexico for Trump's wall that he said Mexico will pay for.

during his last term.

The "agency" was housed in the old DC post office building and he called it "Trump Hotel"

I understand he plans on doing it again.

Trump Hotel, where the fleecing of foreign dignitaries never ends.

Racing to add another multi billion dollar redundant agency.

Yup. That tracks.

Now Johnson is going to have to fund it. More debt.

the end of democracy.

TFG aka The Felony Guy does not understand how tariffs work

Link to tweet

Oh, and DOGE won’t be an actual g’ment agency (so far) so it’ll have no legal force or even an approved gment budget.

If we want to take back this country from fascists, we really need to step up the media game. Our media is an absolute fucking joke right now.

After the fascist plunder the USA, they're coming after your country.