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dutch777

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3. Don 't debate this, just paint the GOP as the cause of all cost increases, whether tariff or otherwise.

Reply to lostincalifornia (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 10:31 AM

Nov 5

When we Dems message we burden it with too many words and too much detail. "GOP=higher costs" is all we have to say. Folks do realize who is in charge in DC and beyond that, the details don't matter. You can add "GOP only help the rich" to ice that cake.

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Wilbur Ross is on Bloomberg lying his ass off about tariffs trying to push the bullshit that the "tariffs are not a tax" [View all] lostincalifornia Nov 5 OP

"A tax is not a tax when we do it" is the logic I guess. unblock Nov 5 #1

So Wilber thinks that imposing tariffs lowers the cost of foreign goods to US importers. onenote Nov 5 #2

Don 't debate this, just paint the GOP as the cause of all cost increases, whether tariff or otherwise. dutch777 Nov 5 #3

I am not debating just observing the convoluted reasoning of these jerks twisting themselves into pretzels. lostincalifornia Nov 5 #4