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My Reddit conversation with a Republican about tariffs [1]

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Date: 2025-04-06

This one is different from the previous time I waded into right wing comments online and wrote about it here. This time, it was in response to a Reddit post in the r/economy subreddit by Adept-Gur-1726 entitled: “How did Trump calculate these tariffs?” The person who wrote the post purported to be puzzled, “dumb” and somewhat open-minded, and did not admit they were a Republican until the end.

Are these people gettable? Here’s the transcript of our exchange, edited slightly for length but not at all for content — you can decide for yourself:

Adept-Gur-1726

How did Trump calculate these tariffs? I’ve searched all over the web, tried to do my best in calculating tariffs from other country’s. For instance, he said that Cambodia gave us a 97% tariff. I cannot find this information anywhere. As a matter of fact, every single country I looked up the tariffs were much much lower on US goods than he said and our tariffs were actually much higher than the tariffs they were implementing on US goods. The only bit of reliable information that I could find was that the trade deficit between the two countries was closer to the actual percentage of tariffs than the actual tariffs themselves. So please tell me he’s not actually talking about the trade deficit between the two countries because if he is, this plan seems really really dumb but I’m not an economic expert like some of you guys. But if they are on the trade deficit, how does this make any sense at all? Does he even know what a trade deficit means? Because a trade deficit isn’t really bad bad it just means we buy more products than they buy from us. I can’t think of anything wrong with that.

Adept-Gur-1726 (in response to someone explaining the “tariffs” were really trade deficits):

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