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    What’s ironic is that more foreign owned brands have production plants in the US than US brands at this point. Nissan Toyota and Honda all have US plants. GM Ford and Chrysler all have plants primarily in Canada and Mexico.

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    Will Scharf, a White House official, claimed the new car tariffs would result in more than $100bn in annual revenue to the US

    I dont understand how this is supposed to generate ‘revenue for the US’. The money will come from their own citizens, so its basically a tax increase. Are taxes considered ‘revenue for the country’? Its not like the money comes frot outside the US.

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      Technically yes, this is tax revenue for the government. Which is weird, I thought Republicans wanted to lower taxes…

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    And people voted for this Orange Mussolini, so I truly hope everyone who voted is feeling the terror around these tariffs, and I hope you make better decisions in the future because nobody voted for fascism, but your vote for GOP did just that!! And now WE ALL have to suffer! Fucking troglodytes!!!

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    I think the saddest part is that if BYD could be imported into America, it’d probably still be cheaper with the 20% tariff.

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    Oh this is gonna suck balls! What about replacement parts?

    All of this is a great idea for making cars expensive as fuck again!..MCEAFA