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drray23

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12. Indeed, unless you are already wealthy.

Reply to Girard442 (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 25, 2025, 06:47 PM

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Your expenses are a small fraction of your net worth unlike a person in the middle class or lower where most of their income goes towards food, rent and so on.

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Trump suggests we can do without any taxes -- just fund everything with tariffs [View all] allegorical oracle Saturday OP

He's nuts. no_hypocrisy Saturday #1

Something happened in 1929 to change all that. Klarkashton Saturday #2

Put tariffs on ketchup, cofeve and burgers. See how it affects him. GreenWave Saturday #3

A tariff is basically a sales tax. People wouldn't like it so much if there was suddenly a 25% sales tax on eggs, no? Girard442 Saturday #4

Indeed, unless you are already wealthy. drray23 Saturday #12

Talk about rewriting history. Biophilic Saturday #5

He's an idiot surfered Saturday #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Oopsie Daisy Saturday #7

Fucking idiot,... magicarpet Saturday #8

If tariffs are good for things people buy, House of Roberts Saturday #9

Yeah, Fatass, in 1913 they did numbers. I guess then they stopped doing numbers. jls4561 Saturday #10

How about fund the goddamned churches with tariffs too, idiot! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Saturday #11

Better yet, put tariffs ON the churches. jls4561 Saturday #13

Right on! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Saturday #15

The man is insane claudette Saturday #14

So basically a 1790 economic system CanonRay Saturday #16