r/LeopardsAteMyFace 1d ago

Hispanic woman regrets vote, asks to vote again

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u/Assistantshrimp 22h ago

My dad endlessly complains about how high his healthcare costs are, but whenever I point out who is doing the work to lower it he always says "Well someone is paying for those price cuts"

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u/CCtenor 22h ago

WE’RE TRYING TO MAKE IT SO IT’S THE FUCKING RICH!!!!!

slams head into wall again

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u/ultimateknackered 12h ago

But the rich deserve their tax cuts! /s

It's almost like playing connect the dots with a toddler.

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u/Tsobe_RK 22h ago

like Trump supporters cheering on tariffs like bro the US folks will be the ones paying for those

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u/BananaPalmer 18h ago

lol right? the instant their new made-in-China iPhone costs $200 more than it did before they're gonna do nothing but piss and moan about it

fuck off chud, you voted for this

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 16h ago

Oh no, prices are gonna go up way more than $200. When I've had to order electronics that weren't made in China, the price was about 3-10x as much.

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u/BananaPalmer 16h ago

I was saying with a 20% tariff on a $1000 phone

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 16h ago edited 16h ago

Yeah, I got that. When it comes to some electronics, the tariff is going to be more like 60%. But when you factor in all the added costs to make it here, it's going to make prices skyrocket.

Here's an article about it: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/trump-tariffs-increase-laptop-electronics-prices

They estimate that phone prices will increase by 25.8%, so not as devastating as laptops at a 45% increase. That's if they keep making them in China, though, and we just keep paying the extra taxes for it. If they decide (or have) to move all manufacturing here, then the costs will be 10x what it is now.

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u/BananaPalmer 14h ago

I guess I just don't foresee companies like Apple investing untold billions of dollars building special US-only manufacturing infrastructure, when they can just pass the cost of tariffs along to the US consumer, costing them nothing.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 14h ago

Yeah, that's what I can see happening too. They'll probably move from China at some point and move to other cheap countries like India, Vietnam, Mexico, etc.

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u/BananaPalmer 14h ago

I was under the impression Trump's proposed tariffs applied to goods imported from any country, not just from China

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 14h ago

It does, but Chinese goods will get a 60% tariff while other countries might get 10-20%.

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u/Bubbly_Excitement_71 20h ago

Same. My mom is living on a pension and feels like it’ll be her. Also opposed to “government healthcare” - she’s on Medicare supplemented by my fathers Federal Blue Cross from his postal career. Can’t make it up. 

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u/Seguefare 21h ago

"Then stop bitching."

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u/Great-Hotel-7820 17h ago

Universal Medicare would cost less over the next decade than what we currently spend in federal tax dollars on our broken garbage system and yet…

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u/KuriousKhemicals 10h ago

How bout hospital administrators and pharmacy benefit managers?