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Section 1 Paragraph 4: Every dollar of tariff revenue represents a dollar extracted from American businesses and households.

Why am I not paying substantially more year over year for the wide variety of things I purchase?

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I feel we should have an independent source by now if that was true. Thousands of Chinese suppliers all taking losses to keep market share seems unlikely. A government program would have been clearly shown too. I think it is more likely that goods are being labelled with different origins and being imported through preexisting treaties like NAFTA (I forgot the Trumpian name for his negotiated version), or that Economists are shameless modern tortoise shell baking shamans that we need to sacrifice to appease angry dead ancestors.

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