• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That’s fine. Nintendo was already planning to impose the Nintendo tax. So I imposed the “I ain’t buyin’ this shit tax”.

      • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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        Hopefully gamers get together and protest Trump out of office for artificially bumping up the costs of goods.

        Tarrifs = Tax

        A tax that working people pay, in the country that set the tarriff.

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            Probably gamers put him in office in the first place. Steve Bannon capitalized on Gamergate and started latching on to it to recruit young white male gamers to the far right. Then these GamerGate proponents became manosphere followers.

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              You say that but I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if gamers as a demographic are more liberal than average.

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        24 hours ago

        145% of 450 is 652, you add those together and it’s essentially 1100$. And that’s before tax at the register in the US.

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            19 hours ago

            Technically it isn’t.

            The company has a price for the product, importers import the product at that price (sometimes the importer will also be the manufacturer, but that doesn’t actually make a difference as far as the calculation is concerned), then some official shows up and demands an import tariff, the important pays the tariff.

            The shelf price is calculated as the total cost to the importer + a profit margin + sales tax. The tariff just gets lumped into the cost for the importer. Sales tax doesn’t make a distinction about how the price is arrived at.

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              18 hours ago

              Yes, technically correct and I am not disputing your points.

              But, we all know the cost of the tariff the local importer will need to pay the local government will be passed on to local consumers.

              My distinction and argument is if the government said “we will increase taxes on all products at your local grocery store by 145℅” people would flip. But when the wording become we will tariff “other countries” people forget who actually pays that tariff.

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      Thanks Trump for adding a 145% “tax” on my electronics. How am I supposed to afford anything now!?

      Guess I may as well just go protest instead.

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      I wasn’t going to get one even if it was £20, but how? Trump set the tariffs. Obviously it’s going to cost a shitload more if there is a 145% tariff in the US.