• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    No shit.

    This is literally in the first paragraph of every economics textbook when they talk about tariffs.

    • Kalysta@lemm.ee
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      1 hour ago

      My friend just got into a fight with some MAGATs on facebook about why we need things like civics education so we know what we’re voting for.

      You’ll be shocked to learn the MAGATs called him a communist for daring to want to educate them. They don’t even want to open the textbook let alone read it.

    • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      No, the first page is how it introduces inefficiencies into a supply/demand equilibrium, resulting in a lower quantity supplied and at a higher price.

      No one who every studies economics, even in passing, would even consider another country paying a tarrif for something you buy. The concept is just… what?

      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        Yeah, the, misguided, idea is that the increase in price from imports will drive domestic production, of those things, as the high prices reduce demand, and cut into profit margins. This used to be something that was a sensible assumption of what would happen. However the contemporary world has far too much infrastructure for tariffs to truly work like that any longer. It will, usually, be cheaper to increase the costs for the tariffs, than to restructure back to domestic production.