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Economic ignorance abounds in these comments. Tariffs are more accurately termed a punitive tax on consumers. A country enacting reciprocal tariffs is like shooting a hole in your boat to get back at your neighbor who shot a hole in their own boat. It makes no sense.

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I mean, it doesn't make sense if everyone is playing fair. You can't negotiate without being willing to sacrifice something to hurt the other side. In war, that's soldiers, in trade wars, that's the consumer.

Ideally, everyone looks at their own tariffs and decides these aren't worth it, because, like you said, they hurt consumers. This means everyone lowers tariffs and life continues better than it was before.

Actually, it doesn't make sense even if everyone is not playing fair. Self-harm is self-harm. What kind of negotiating is that? "If you shoot a hole in your boat I'll shoot one in mine!"

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