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There are not tariffs. They are taxes on the individual’s total imports above the limit, not a tax on a specific item or from a specific country.
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Musk is on the record being lukewarm at best about Trump’s tariffs ideas
Argentina was starting from a much different place than the US. Literally any good you bring into the country would be taxed at 100%. My friend got caught bringing in 2 new iPhones and had to pay thousands of dollars at the airport. We are not the same.
Elon knows this. He’s trying to change Trump’s policy without confronting it.
the geniuses that know everything changed their mind again.
Ok how about this? Everyone let’s Trump-Elon pass a 10% tariff on imports (punish the foreigners!) and they also pass a 10% negative import tax (negative tax! wow! helping consumers!)
Argentina has no geo-political reason to have high tariff barriers. They have plenty of good exports, a highly educated population, and loads of natural resources. Only problem is the country's obsession with corrupt socialists.
Import taxes are different from tariffs. Import taxes apply indiscriminately across all imported goods. Tariffs are set by country of origin. As a pro-labor conservative I favor tariffs inversely proportional to worker rights at source.
And Argentina is running both a budget surplus and trade surplus right now. If they are trying to dial in an appropriate balance for their economy, they seem to be interested in a balanced trade while maintaining a surplus.
No supplier considers the Argentine the same way as the US market. Argentine takes the price.
That's the word that was used in Spanish by the Argentinian government. They didn't say "arancel" (tariff), but taxes.
What I find most interesting about this thread Musk made is how woefully ignorant Trump supporters are about tariffs. The media completely failed to explain the concept to the American public.
Read the post and do some critical thinking
Not the same thing as tariffs
when is yglesias going to admit that he fundamentally doesn’t understand basic principles?
I get where you're going with this and in theory yes it may seem hypocritical. But you cannot compare South American import taxes with the tariffs being considered for the US. Just go to any mall in Miami and you'll understand the difference immediately.
Believe it or not, the Argentinian and American economies are different and need different things.
do you understand they are actually different things or are you being retarded on purpose? tariffs are a specific type of import tax.
Wait so do we just start referring to tariffs as import taxes and post about how based it is to not have them? I’m ready.
I think it's very important for anyone who likes both Trump and Milei to realize that Argentina has been governed the way Trump is now promising to govern for decades, and Milei's revolution is to undo the Argentinian version of Trumpism.
Seems the BlueSky migration lasted all of 12 hours. Gets shorter every iteration.
It would be kind of funny if they actually ended up cutting tariffs instead of boosting them.
So Musk is praising Milei for doing the opposite of what Trump plans to do? Make it make sense.
Raise taxes just so you can cut em right away and say "hey look, I cut your taxes!" Oldest trick in the book
It makes American goods cheaper so the mercantilist American likes if the Argentines do it.
Points to an elegant solution for keeping campaign promises: Trump imposes $2T of tariffs. DOGE recommends eliminating $2T of wasteful import taxes. Return to status quo, but now Trump & Musk can bask in the adulation for their genius. Everyone wins.
So tariffs are good for the US but bad for Argentina. Nice consistency, Elon. 
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Sooo tariffs?
Did he mention why he is cutting tariffs?
B/c it seems like the 250% inflation might have something to do with that.
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Cue the MAGA cultists explaining that "tariffs" and "import taxes" are not the same thing.
We are being overtaken by fascists and media is not sounding the alarms because they’re too busy laughing that not sounding the alarm BEFORE the election and even now isn’t in their best corporate interests or their own employee paychecks from their bosses. Shame on them
Yes. We want other countries to cut tariffs. This is a good thing. We’ll keep ours, though.
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I've heard "Pay for these tax cuts" for the last 20 years. Newspeak is the game, and it didn't start today.
Does Elon somehow not know what a tariff is? He wholeheartedly endorsed the guy whose economic plan included massive “import taxes”
Libertarian nutters like Milei hate tariffs! We don’t want to emulate a nutter like Milei, do we?
lol this dumb-dumb’s bio reads “wisdom” and his timeline is full of “smart” quotes and book recommendations and….CRYPTO 
“What are you getting at?” we all need a village idiot we can collectively laugh at.
“What are you getting at?” we all need a village idiot we can collectively laugh at.
I don't get how people see this as inconsistent.
US gets to decide for itself while Argentina has to do what US companies want. This is fully consistent with the far right chauvinist world view.
You guys are so disingenuous.
He’s referring to the tax individuals pay on personal items they order up to $1000, which will now be raised to $3000.
This is not a tariff, which businesses with overseas operations and suppliers have to pay when they ship those products in.
Silly all or nothing argument. Anti-product dumping tarrifs to prevent communists from exploiting your system probably aren't a bad idea
Tariff is the most beautiful word in the English language, you can’t just throw it around willy-nilly
Matthew’s mad a non Zionist Jew is a billionaire and the richest man alive. He thinks only Zionist Jews should be that rich