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Título Original: Tariffs for Dummies
Publicado em YT, 11 de Abril de 2025
Créditos: Larken Rose
Publicação Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRhKhPxMdw4
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Since lots of people don't seem to grasp even the bleeding obvious when it comes to the authoritarian extortion known as "tariffs," I thought it was time for a crash course.
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Título Original: Tariffs for Dummies
Publicado em YT, 11 de Abril de 2025
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Publicação Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRhKhPxMdw4
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Since lots of people don't seem to grasp even the bleeding obvious when it comes to the authoritarian extortion known as "tariffs," I thought it was time for a crash course.
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00:00Hey, Larkin Rose here, and I thought it was time for a quick lesson about tariffs, since a number of Trump supporters suddenly seem incapable of grasping even the most simple, obvious, indisputable facts.
00:14For example, I've seen some claim that tariffs aren't really taxes. This is bizarre and patently ridiculous. Yes, tariffs are taxes. Tariff, a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports. A tariff is a duty, tax, imposed by the government of a country or customs territory on imports.
00:41When government demands money from people for doing stuff, why would anyone pretend that isn't a tax? Well, other than not wanting to admit that Trump is dramatically increasing taxes.
00:55One bonkers argument is that because you only pay tariffs if you choose to buy stuff from foreign countries, then somehow it magically doesn't count as a tax because you didn't have to buy stuff from foreign countries, so you don't have to pay those taxes.
01:14This argument, however, is utterly moronic, just as much as claiming that a sales tax isn't really a tax because you didn't have to buy that thing, and an income tax isn't really a tax because you didn't have to, like, earn any money,
01:31and a property tax isn't really a tax because you didn't have to buy property, and all those excise taxes aren't really taxes because you didn't have to engage in all the things that excise taxes are imposed upon.
01:46Even some supposedly pro-freedom people claim that tariffs aren't really theft. Yeah, taxation is theft, but tariff isn't really theft because you don't have to buy things from foreign countries.
01:58Again, such reasoning is patently stupid. My usual response to anyone making that absurd argument is to proclaim that from now on I will send thugs to smash their kneecaps if they don't give me $100 a day, but I'm only going to do that on days that they choose to wear socks.
02:17They don't have to wear socks. So, according to their logic, that wouldn't be theft, and it wouldn't be bad because they could simply choose to not wear socks.
02:30So if they do wear socks, I guess they must be voluntarily agreeing to pay me $100 a day or get their kneecap smashed.
02:42See how stupid that argument is?
02:44Next, many Trump apologists faithfully repeat ridiculous mythology about how those meanie foreign countries have been taxing us unfairly, so we're going to tax them to teach them a lesson.
02:59Trouble is, that's not in any way what is actually happening.
03:04Maybe this kindergarten-level illustration can help even Trumpites to understand.
03:10Imagine this is one country and this is another country.
03:15These are the normal people in those countries, and these are the ruling classes.
03:21The ruling class of this country does not have the jurisdiction or the legal authority to tax the people in the other country.
03:31Duh.
03:32And they can't tax the other ruling class either.
03:37Again, duh.
03:39Now, suppose some person or people or company in this country makes widgets, and they want to sell them to people in this country.
03:49Now, if this ruling class wants to tax that, they can't tax the foreign company.
03:57They can't tax the foreign country.
04:00They can't tax the foreign ruling class.
04:03What they can do is impose an import tax, also known as a tariff, on the people already in this country who are trying to import widgets made in the other country.
04:19Tariffs are the ruling class of a country taxing the people in that same country who are trying to import things from elsewhere.
04:33That's what a tariff is.
04:35And when foreign countries impose tariffs, they aren't taxing Americans.
04:41The government of China, for example, does not have the jurisdiction to impose any taxes on me.
04:48Instead, they are imposing taxes on people in China who might be trying to import things from elsewhere, including from the U.S.
05:00Likewise, when the U.S. ruling class imposes tariffs, that's not them taxing foreign countries or foreign ruling classes.
05:08That is the U.S. ruling class imposing taxes on people who are in the United States already and who are trying to import things from other countries.
05:22U.S. tariffs are taxes on Americans.
05:25And then importers pass on the cost of those taxes to all the customers in this country who want to buy products from foreign countries.
05:37So, these people, the importers, pay the taxes directly, and then all these people end up paying the tariffs indirectly.
05:46Therefore, pretending that this is somehow America getting back at those unfair, meany other countries is absolutely moronic.
05:56If some foreign ruling class robs its people by way of tariffs, it isn't getting back at them to have the U.S. ruling class robbing us even more than they already did.
06:09The fact that anyone is economically ignorant enough to fall for such crap is kind of amazing.
06:16But, I mean, it's almost impressive that Trump has duped so many of his own supporters into cheering for higher taxes on Americans while pretending that that's somehow teaching China a lesson.
06:29The only actual lesson to learn here is that political bootluckers will cheer for their own victimization if they fall for the silly idea that any political savior gives a crap about them.
06:41Hey, those other slaves on that other plantation are getting whipped harder than we are.
06:46We need to level the playing field by asking our master to whip us harder.
06:52It really is that dumb.
06:55Now, sometimes the excuses for massively increasing taxes on Americans gets a lot more convoluted and confusing to try to bewilder the human livestock into tolerating or even cheering for less freedom for themselves.
07:12One common tool of such baffle-them-with-bullshit methodology is the concept of trade deficits.
07:20The short version of this is the people in country A are buying more stuff from country B than the people in country B are buying from country A.
07:31Now, political liars and thieves want you to think that this is somehow unfair and destructive and that the solution is, surprise, surprise, more government power, more legalized extortion, and less individual freedom.
07:47But the truth is, trade deficits are meaningless bullshit.
07:51They don't matter at all.
07:53For example, I have a huge trade deficit with Home Depot.
07:58I buy stuff from Home Depot pretty often, and yet Home Depot has never bought anything from me.
08:06This is unfair. This cannot stand.
08:10Okay, this is about as basic as economics can get.
08:13I bought stuff from Home Depot because I wanted what they were selling more than I wanted the money that I had to give up to get that stuff.
08:24And at the same time, they wanted my money more than they wanted what they were selling or they wouldn't have been selling it.
08:32Both sides of every voluntary trade benefit.
08:36They're both made richer because the trade wouldn't have happened if that wasn't the case.
08:43So me being bitter at Home Depot for not buying anything from me would be just idiotic.
08:50But how about the international version of that?
08:53Suppose the people in some other country sold lots and lots of stuff to willing American customers,
09:01but they didn't buy anything from American businesses.
09:08Oh, the horror.
09:10What would the result of that be?
09:12The result is Americans got richer by getting stuff that they valued more than the money they had to give up to get that stuff.
09:22And of course, the same thing would be true the other way around.
09:25If some American company sold a whole bunch of stuff to the people of some foreign country,
09:31but Americans weren't buying anything from that other country,
09:35is that some horrible injustice?
09:39No, both sides still benefited.
09:42There is no unfairness that needs to be resolved by way of more government robbery.
09:48So the whole idiotic trade deficit thing is just bullshit made up by politicians
09:54to use as an excuse to get more power and control and money for themselves.
10:01But how do they do that?
10:02Political parasites in the U.S. might say something like,
10:06Hey, you people in China aren't buying enough stuff from Mirka,
10:11so we're going to raise tariffs on products coming into the U.S. from China to make it fair
10:20by making your stuff more expensive for Americans to buy.
10:25To show how bogus and ridiculous this really is,
10:28consider the Home Depot analogy again.
10:30Hey, you people at Home Depot aren't buying enough stuff from me.
10:34So now, I'm going to make sure that my neighbor robs me every time I try to shop at Home Depot.
10:45Yes, tariffs are that stupid.
10:50They're literally that.
10:51The ruling class robbing their own people
10:55and telling the victims that they're doing that to make things more fair.
11:00And even a bunch of supposed conservatives and Republicans who should know better are falling for it.
11:08Now, the moment the duped livestock start to actually think about things
11:12and notice that it doesn't add up,
11:14Trump and his fellow control freaks have to keep changing their story
11:18and changing the argument and changing the excuses.
11:22These tariffs will raise $6 trillion in tax revenue, says Trump.
11:28Now, kind of weird that he's bragging about something that would constitute
11:33the largest tax increase in the history of the world.
11:40And kind of weird that he's bragging about the ruling class robbing Americans
11:46of $6 trillion above and beyond what the government already steals from them.
11:53But when people point this out, suddenly the story changes to,
11:57no, no, no, no, no, no, Trump is just doing this to force those other countries
12:01to change their ways and lower their tariffs.
12:05And once that happens, Trump will undo all of his tariff increases.
12:10Then why did he brag about all the revenue that tariffs will bring in?
12:15They don't bring in revenue if they don't exist.
12:19Well, well, besides, the Trump apologists continue,
12:24adding spin to spin and changing their position again,
12:27this will bring back manufacturing jobs to Merka.
12:31Well, that doesn't happen either if the tariffs are going to go away
12:34once Trump manages to bully the rest of the world into doing what he wants.
12:39Now, the Merkin jobs argument is that by imposing huge tariffs on imports from foreign countries,
12:46that makes Merkin made products way cheaper by comparison than the foreign goods.
12:53But that's only true if the tariffs stay in place.
12:58Duh.
12:59Well, yeah, that's why they'll stay in place, say the schizoid Trumpites.
13:04And also, yes, it can help a certain business to use government violence to crush their competition.
13:12But in the meantime, you'd be robbing other Americans by way of tariffs
13:17and making it so all those other Americans can no longer freely choose what they want to buy.
13:24So Trump is using government extortion to force Americans to buy more costly
13:29and or crappier American-made products,
13:32which makes everything more expensive and makes all Americans less prosperous.
13:39Well, almost all Americans, the ones who actually benefit from tariffs,
13:43are the American politicians,
13:45because they're now stealing so much more money from everyone else in the country.
13:51And that brings us to the final argument,
13:54the piece de resistance,
13:56the pinnacle of Trumpite idiocy.
13:59And that goes like this.
14:01Well, if tariffs are so bad, and if they don't work,
14:05why do 170 other countries use them?
14:09Well, tariffs do work for the ruling classes who are robbing their own people.
14:16They work quite well for the thieves.
14:20They don't work so well for all the people getting robbed.
14:23So this argument is precisely as moronic as saying,
14:27well, if carjacking isn't a good thing,
14:29then why does every major city have carjackings?
14:34Because the thieves benefit from robbing people.
14:39And the thieves who call themselves governments benefit from robbing their own subjects.
14:45That's why so many ruling classes do that.
14:49The only difference is,
14:50I've never seen any carjacker who has yet managed to dupe his own victims
14:54into cheering for their own robbery,
14:58and into thinking that the carjacker is somehow
15:01looking out for their best interests
15:03and representing and serving them
15:06by robbing them more.
15:09Unlike Trumpites,
15:11who are literally now cheering
15:14at the prospect of their new Lord and Savior,
15:18robbing them even more than before.
15:22Holy crap.
15:33And in that story of a woman clock they got disabled by herself.
15:53Sometimes I go there and take a look and see how the city is francophone has worked for it or not.