Summary
A Harris poll reveals that 69% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs would increase consumer costs, with many planning purchases ahead of his inauguration to avoid price hikes.
Trump has championed tariffs as a key policy to boost domestic manufacturing, but economists and corporate leaders warn costs will be passed to consumers, potentially adding $2,600 annually to household expenses.
While Republicans are more supportive of tariffs, only 51% think they will benefit the economy.
The poll highlights widespread concern over tariffs’ economic impact, especially amid lingering inflation and financial uncertainty.
Alternate headline: 1/3 of Americans Functionally Didn’t Receive High School Education
Tbf, I was very ignorant regarding tariffs as a young adult post highschool. But also, we have the Internet, and Google, and as of now we have fucking AI that can ELI5 literally any topic you are interested in knowing more about if you aren’t an ignorant piece of shit. But here we are, America is full of ignorant pieces of shit. Shocker.
This comment is both fucking hilarious and shittily depressing at the same time. I don’t know which emotion is stronger.
shittily depressing
This one. It’s definitely this one. 🙁
Headline should read “One third of Americans have no idea how a tariff works”
And most of them showed up and voted for Trump. 1/3rd of adults voting for fascism is all it takes to destroy a country when 70 million people stay home and don’t vote
It doesn’t matter what they ‘think’. Tariffs will fuck everything up for everyone involved. People’s opinions on this mean nothing. It is like asking people if they think that being thrown into a deep body water with a heavy chain around around your feet will kill. The answer they give is irrelevant. That action will kill you because you will drown. End of discussion.
Maybe they should have voted appropriately on Nov 5.
The other 3rd are just that braindead
Well now hold up, a little more than half of the 2/3 knew better but voted for it anyways. Id say they’re pretty braindead too.
A little more than half knew better but didn’t bother to vote.
This has been common for so long and 2020 was a fluke with voter turnout. You’re totally right here, people did just not vote but it’s also a result of not giving people incentives that get them to vote. Voting isn’t really easy in much of the US, especially for those working long hours at the start of the holiday season. Biden ran on stimmy checks and student loan forgiveness, Harris ran on small business tax incentives and building a wall. Just like with plastics, it’s easy to look at individual blame here and get upset with the people who didn’t vote but it’s the system that made them not want to vote.
Trump ran on “I’m going to be a dictator” and a third of Americans didn’t consider that reason enough to vote.
Because they voted away the problem in the past right? Hell, it doesn’t even matter that a third of American’s didn’t vote because most of them live in like 4 states. You say that as if it has any real measurable weight when in reality it is a handful of states that had maybe a million or two combined not participate. The type of base you could inspire instead of parading around you’re endorsed by a war criminal.
but they are more likely to vote than the other two thirds.
They are more likely to vote for the wrong team
The other third are household pets.
I love how people are debating this as if it’s not a well understood concept. Can’t wait till we get headlines like “1/4 of people belive a bullet to the head might possibly be fatal in some cases”.
https://phys.org/news/2014-02-americans-unaware-earth-circles-sun.html
One in four Americans unaware that Earth circles Sun
I upgraded my GPU and bought a bunch of audio stuff that I was gonna wait to pull the trigger on til later. Not taking the chance of not being able to afford it later.
ITT 1/3 of Americans are fucking morons
A Harris poll reveals that 69% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs would increase consumer costs, with many planning purchases ahead of his inauguration to avoid price hikes.
Galaxy brain economics.
I mean when they drew it up they showed commuter costs were up hundreds of dollars a piece. If he does what he says he was planning to do every company’s IT budget is shot. If people thought they had old computers before, no chance they are getting upgraded if that happens. Instead of saying new laptops every 3-4 years and desktops 5 years they’ll likely just switch back to desktops and say every 6 years, cutting out paying for docks/port replicators, and having more reasonsl to force users into office to get people to quit and cut payroll costs as well. Bottom line still goes up, CEO and stocks go up, quality of product/service… Goes down
Note obviously that cuts into the network infrastructure and all software licensing as well. You have to renew licenses, maybe can cut some cost if you cut staff, but it means forcing more users to cheaper software, and likely holding off all wireless access points upgrades/installs, new fiber runs etc
Well, the other 31% will learn it the hard way.
Jesus, this is so fucking contrarian.
Yes, taxing goods imported from countries with poor labor laws increases their price.
Yes, we should increase the cost of goods that are made with unfair labor practices (or ban them entirely)
Yes, Trump is still a criminal even if he accidentally does the right thing every now and then
Not all imported goods are made with unfair labor practices.
So 1/3rd of Americans don’t understand how economies work or what a tariff is.
US has lead pipes, piss poor education standards with not enough funding, environmental pollution, bought out media that perpetuates toxic culture
Wut that has to do with anything there saying??!! *cough and wheeze*
The Democrats want to take your guns!
Dude! This is Trumpland! We don’t do reality!
Egad, you’re right! Here, we let reality do us!
Gotta be the same 30-40% that vote trump no matter what he does.
And 20% do, but voted for him anyway…
That assumes that everyone who answered this poll bothered to vote
At this point, with him announcing to all and sundry during the campaign that he was going to do this, not bothering to vote was still a vote.
But you see, the leopards won’t eat their faces!
Tariffs were barely talked about until the day after the election for some reason. So a lot of people learned after the election…
Tariffs were talked about constantly before the election. A lot if people weren’t listening.
But muh eggz
They just go with whatever Trump says.
And the other .001% is former president McKinley who Trump assumes is still alive.
If 2/3 of people seemingly understand the truth, how tf was he voted back in? Can they get rid of the outdated electoral college system yet?
Trump won with less than 20% of the vote if you count all eligible voters, he won because most people stayed home.
Electoral college was irrelevant this election. Trump won the popular vote because people don’t think voting is important. Kamala Harris was a shit candidate, but Democratic voters weren’t given a primary to pick a better one.
While the Electoral College did not directly factor into this election it could have indirectly factored in due to minority voters in solidly controlled states simply deciding not to vote due to their votes having no impact on the outcome. If for instance you were a Democrat in a state that Republicans have won by double digit percentages for the last couple decades you might rightly assume that whether you vote or not the outcome remains unchanged.
If we had a straight popular vote rather than the EC then literally every vote would count, unlike the current system where that’s only true in battleground states. In this case the EC is just another in a long list of voter suppression tools.
Mandatory voting?
Make not voting cause you to be chosen first for jury duty.
Personally, I’ve never minded jury duty, but people seem to lose their minds over it.
I don’t want to potentially be judged by people who can’t even be fucked to vote, thank you very much.
Do you want to be judged by someone who isn’t smart enough to get out of jury duty?
When we don’t get paid because we miss work and are dependent on that money, it can be annoying. In theory, I think it would be cool to be on a jury, but its a luxury to be able to afford to be on a jury.
I guess it depends on where you are. In my city, you get 150% of minimum wage/hour of jury duty, so $18 an hour. Though of course if you make more than that and are paid hourly, it’s a definite loss.
My state pays $20/day. The last time I was summoned, the estimated cost of the commute using the IRS average is $35 (granted, that’s a high estimate) and not reimbursed or compensated. Also the $20 is taxed. So it effectively cost me money to go to jury duty in my old county even before accounting for lost wages.
Oof - yeah, that’s garbage.
I’d agree, except do we really want to emphasize the least engaged citizens for jury duty? That’s still someone’s freedom on the line, and while for some select few people finding a chance to vote is extremely difficult due to registration fuckery in Republican states, with the rise of early voting and vote by mail, the primary demographic of non-voting adults is people who are apathetic or intentionally ignorant to the political process. My fear is: “This is a waste of my time, and 30 days isn’t that long; just send them to jail.” And there won’t be anyone who cares strongly enough to object because the jury is packed with these apathetic citizens. To clarify, I see this as more of a problem with small-fry misdemeanor or less serious felony cases, not like murder or rape trials. But that’s most trials.
You could argue that politically engaged Republicans can be much, much worse on a jury, that this could help them develop a sense of engagement with politics, and that they might care if they can see their choice directly affecting someone else, but it seems sketchy.
I never understood the hatred over jury duty. Except for people who work minimum wage or don’t get paid jury duty.
Jury duty is the most direct way a normal citizen can affect democracy.
I vote in every primary and every election and have never been selected for jury duty.
Which implies I have no peers.
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While I too want more people to participate, I think we should also recognize that choosing not to vote is protected speech. That’s probably not why people don’t vote, so we should probably find other ways to encourage voting (holiday, more access to polls, etc.) Unfortunately, some repulsive people prefer it when fewer people vote.
For protected speech, I’d prefer if people would go in, take a ballot, and submit it blank. Essentially, making a statement that there is no one on the ballot who would represent them. It would be more meaningful than not going to the polling place at all. It sends a more significant message than just staying home.
I do agree that we need to make it easier, not harder, to vote.
Automatic registration, election day holiday, laws forcing employers to facilitate voting by their employees.
“If you are going to protest at least do it exactly the way I think you should.”
Well, perhaps you should do it in a way that doesn’t appear exactly like you actually can’t be bothered to do anything.
Matter of perspective. Its not important that you think their action has no effect, its important that they think their action has effect.
Neither perspective is really wrong or right absolutely. We won’t know which is right for so many decades that its useless to declare one perspective entirely baseless.
The new suppressed it, or the democrats restricted who could run, or anything else, but stop telling me the primary I voted in didn’t happen.
It did happen, it was just irrelevant. No serious competition was allowed (Sorry, Dean Phillips).
This is fair. It was a bad primary
Was Kamala on your ballot? If the results of an election are ignored, was it really an election?
I’m not going to say that people were so stupid that they didn’t realize a vote for Biden was really a vote for Kamala.
What a weird reality you live in. Especially funny given that Kamala came in almost dead last in the 2020 primary that Biden won.
Democracy depends on an informed public. The Democrats concealed Biden’s mental decline so, arguably, a vote for Biden wasn’t even a vote for Biden.
Also, an election without adequate media coverage and no debates makes a mockery of the idea of an informed electorate. That’s how they run elections in Russia or North Korea, not in a functioning democracy. If you don’t have higher standards than that, you don’t deserve democracy.
Less than a third of eligible voters voted for him, so it tracks. Close to half the country not voting suggests they understand tariffs, but either just fine paying 20% extra for everything or don’t believe he’ll actually do the things he’s been most vocal about doing.
Most voters are dumber than dogshit. Can’t blame the EC for this one. Blame the fucking dumbass voters.
The guy didn’t even get the majority of the votes.
GM’s stock price is down 8% today.
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate automotive union workers who voted for Trump.
It’s not like the actual workers see any of the money when the stock price goes up…
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Yeah, but they are the ones let go when the stock tumbles.
Sounds like a pretty dumb system if the people who actually make the product are only exposed to downside but don’t benefit from the upside. We should probably tear that whole system down.
They get profit sharing checks. Those profit checks go down when the company is less profitable. Those profit checks go to $0 and their paychecks go to $0 when the company is losing money and has to let people go.
And the CEO will get a golden parachute
Gee, sounds like those same people are currently having issues with face eating leopards \○/
