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dutch777

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1. Profit will be interesting to see how it is calculated. "Tariffs will take in billions" is easy to say if you don't...

Reply to Shermann (Original post)

Sat Mar 15, 2025, 11:58 AM

Mar 2025

...count all the lost sales and business that foreign countries inflict by not buying US or travelling to the US. I suspect math will somehow be in Trump's favor if it is the government calculating it but in fact a lot of businesses will get hurt as collateral damage to the stupidity.

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Profit will be interesting to see how it is calculated. "Tariffs will take in billions" is easy to say if you don't... dutch777 Mar 2025 #1

Trump says that tariffs will make trillions of dollars for the Fed lapfog_1 Mar 2025 #2