#LieGate - lie of the week

BoyNextDoor said:

"China is now paying us billions of dollars in tariffs" - Tricky Trumpy yesterday @ the Inaugural Meeting of the President’s National Council for the American Worker (sic)

Does Tricky Trumpy really not know that Americans pay the import taxes, not the Chinese?

Nope.

It is just a lie.

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Says the guy that doesn't know that Americans pay all corporate taxes in the form of reduced benefits for employees, or higher prices for consumers.

ButterflyMcQueef said:

Says the guy that doesn't know that Americans pay all corporate taxes in the form of reduced benefits for employees, or higher prices for consumers.

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Is he wrong, though? Do you think the cost of these tariffs are passed on to consumers or not? Hmmm?

Tell us.

Who is ButterflyMcQueef?

Americans do not "pay all corporate taxes" in reduced benefits and higher prices. That would imply that all corporate tax breaks would flow to all Americans as increased benefits and lower prices.

Have a look at the CPI and wage indexes since the Tricky Trumpy tax cuts and then click here

WTF color is the sky in your world?