• JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      People aren’t taught what tariffs are actually for anymore. They’re meant to protect local industry by artificially increasing foreign goods; not to decrease prices. Unfortunately, it’s not going to do us much good since the damage to our local industry has already been done.

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        The main thing you hurt when you implement a tariff with no alternative to domestic businesses is those businesses.