[spacechild1]

Except Trump himself repeatedly claimed that the exporting country is paying the tariffs and that the US is earning billions of dollars. And many of his followers seem to believe this.

[testing22321]

Trillions, in fact

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/08/31/trump-say...

[jleyank]

Might be collecting lots of money as tariffs but they’re acting as a national sales tax. Defrays the cost of the tax cuts to some degree I guess.

[spacechild1]

Right, someone has to pay for these tax cuts eventually. The rich certainly won't.