Trump is taxing you but he is hiding it – calls it a TARIFF!
Tip of the hat to http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com

Just a short thought on a summer’s day before school starts.

Now that tariffs are beginning to be nearly fully implemented I would call on retailers and restaurants and online stores (How about you, Amazon?) to add a line item to their receipts to tell us how much we are being taxed through tariffs.

I believe sometime in April or May there was a move do just that. Retailers (I believe it was Walmart) were unwilling to drastically raise their prices without showing what the driver behind the drastic rise were not identified. As I recall the FIWH (Felon In the White House) brought some pressure to bear to stop companies from identifying the costs of tariffs.

It is not like the cost of tariffs could not be identified. The cost would be caught when it is paid at the entry point into the US. Once captured a bit of programming through the various spreadsheets could track that cost clear to the store shelf. The differences of tariff rate based on country or commodity would not make a difference. The cost of the tariff on an item would be calculated when it is paid at the border.

Thus you would know that when you bought something the price was 10% or 22% or whatever more due to tariffs. Plus you would know that when the FIWH begins bragging about how his tariffs are bringing in a huge amount of money, you will have receipts that show that it was you, not Walmart or Amazon that paid an added tax that made up those revenues.

Since the price of coffee looks to be a price that will skyrocket, let’s just see what a receipt may look like today versus tomorrow. Note: I don’t drink coffee so I have no idea what it costs:

Today:  2 cups of coffee @ $5/cup = $10. State tax @$.07 = $.70.  Total = $10.70

Tomorrow:  2 cups of coffee @$5/cup = $10. Tariff @50% $5. State tax @ $.07 = $1.05. Total = $15.05 (Note: we will pay state tax on the tariff – tax on a tax!)

Note that there is a double tax situation. A tax on a tax! Those on top really stick it to us peons!

When you get a receipt you can see in black and white right there at the time of purchase how much the FIWH’s insane fiscal policies are coming right out of your pocket! 

Also, you will understand when the FIWH makes his big announcement on how much the US is making through his great tariff policies, you will understand that it is you, yourself, that is paying the tariffs as inflated costs that make it near impossible for you and me to make ends meet.

Add the costs of the tariffs to the skyrocketing health insurance and medical bills that will be coming thanks to the FIWH’s huge tax cuts for billionaires that sliced Medicaid and you will slowly understand that MAGAs cost a whole lot more than you or I can afford. You will understand finally that they are lying, lying, lying.

Let me add this little blurb I copied from the daily email from Progress Iowa called the High Five. This blurb was from the Tuesday edition. It illustrates how Iowa’s MAGA congress members vote one way and then lie straight to our faces about what they did. In this case it is marionette Miller-Meeks:

MEDICAID FUNDING CUTS IN RURAL IOWA: After voting to gut Medicaid, Rep. Miller-Meeks is attempting to save face by attending a roundtable emphasizing the need to move forward despite Medicaid funding cuts. However, Iowans can’t simply move forward. Medicaid funding cuts and stricter eligibility requirements on rural Iowa hospitals has become a critical issue for local communities and healthcare access. The Republican-backed legislation is likely to exacerbate existing healthcare disparities, particularly in rural areas.