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Pretty sure everyone was told this before the election.
Problem:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2024/11/12/trump-election-win-college-educated-voters/76109508007/
"Harris outperformed Biden’s 2020 numbers among white voters with college degrees. Meanwhile, exit polling from NBC News gave Republicans a 9-point gain with voters who never attended college."
Thing is, basic economics is a high school subject, except:
"Sir, when am I going to have to know how tariffs work in the real world?"
You had econ in HS? Mine had it but it was only an elective.
I don't think mine even had it as an elective. We were too busy spending 2 years of history classes learning how nice the Pilgrims were to the natives. And this was in Massachusetts, which I believe ranks #1 in education in the US.
#1 in education.
And also the only state in the country where every precinct voted for Harris.
Surely that must be a coincidence, right?
Basic economics was not a required class in my high school. Macro and Micro Economics were both electives.
tariffs, trade wars, and their effects surely were covered, or at least touched on, in a history class or two.
Hmm maybe my highschool was far below average then
I was the idiot who though skipping school to partake in smoking weed was the better outcome of studying at school, although I do partially blame being bullied at school for me avoiding it.
'I love the poorly educated', donald j trump, feb 2016.
A simple google search would have many credible sources giving the answer to what tarrifs are.
But to the magats, only fox news has the truth.
I bet a big portion of that 9% shops at Walmart.
Would been smart for Wally’s bottom line to maybe tell their customers about this before the fucking election.
They don’t care. The owners of Walmart are some of the richest people in the world. So like all rich people they just figure they’ll hike prices and people will still pay (and they’ll have to, because Walmart tends to drive all its competitors out of town).
They do not care, and the Waltons probably like Trump. They've got their money already. Waltons don't care about America; they've been in bed with China since Sam died & they've been gobbling up the excessive profits for years. Cheap Chinese goods for low-ish American prices.