Comments by "The Asian Jaywalker" (@theasianjaywalker4455) on "Before Trump Takes Office, Mexico and Canada Act, Blocking Chinese Goods via Fentanyl Crackdown" video.

Please stop repeating this relentless story that Tariffs increase the cost of goods for consumers. this is NOT how it HAS and CURRENTLY works for MOST products. Listen closely to this: The Chinese Gizmo has a specific 'price point' at walmart and its 10 bucks USD. A 'tariff' is put on it. The Importer pays the Tariff (or not) but what REALLY HAPPENS is that the Chinese Gizmo company eats the diffence. The Importer paid China Gizmo 6 dollars a Gizmo. Now the Importer says I'm only buying those if they're 5 dollars cost to me. China Gizmo lowers the price to the importer by THE SAME AMOUNT AS THE TARRIF. Voila. This is why the China Gizmo was 9.99 at Walmart BEFORE the Tarrif and is 9.99 AFTER the Tarrif. And then you'r other made up thing as you bluff your way through this saying wrong things: "China could do it to us!' THEY HAVE BEEN FOR TWENTY EFFING YEARS ALREADY. Do you understand why all those Chinese exchange students are there at midnight in the USA buying iPhones in the USA? then get caught smuggling 100 of them back into China? Where iPhones are are made and available to sell anyway? its because CHINA ALREADY PUTS 'Taxes', Huge taxes sometimes dubbed 'Shelf Taxes' on American products making them 20% MORE EXPENSIVE to Chinese consumers in China. "there is such an imbalance anyway' YES BECAUSE CHINA HAS ALREADY BEEN DOING THIS FOR TWENTY YEARS AND MORE FFS. Why just go online and write fake shlt like that?
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@brentdallyn8459 Hey.. YOU took what i asked you and then turned it around to ASK ME. Wow, you'd make a great China propagandist but here's the problem: now I ask you to tell me what 'holes' and you don't know, do you Boomer phaggit? we are not in a 'two sides' debate. You and I arean't having a 'he said/she said'. There is not an 'argument'. where you hold your own and I my own. All that happened here is you wrote untrue things and I caught it out.
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@SeeHang but they didn't. they did not go from 9 to 11 despite the tariff put on them. yet, Rocky seems convinced that they must have and yet they did not. How is that possible, Rockys77?
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@rockys7726 Hi, I'm not you and playing 'interenet theory' about this life. I've lived and worked in China (and the USA) for well over a decade, before and after tariffs. YOU know Walmart doesn't pass it on because YOU can go to Walmart and you never saw the Gizmo price increase. Please stop trying to pretend we are having a 'debate'. Stop pretending this is that thing where we have 'internet beliefs arguments'. You listen to me and say "OHHHH okay wow I made a mistake and believed that the customers pay the difference ... WOOPS... hey experienced adult from China who's exporting some things as we speak: Thanks, okay I get it now. that was a good explanation! You do that. You should STOP with this thing you MADE UP and don't pass untrue information to people okay? Is that a deal?
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@rockys7726 Hi, you're still living in a delusion where we are in 'internet arguments' to decide this. Reality has and currently does decide it. You still pay 9.99 for the Gizmo despite the 20% Tariff Trump and now Biden have put on it.
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I'm with you on most of that but it's worth mentioning: Contrary to leftist 'anti-western' victim-status revisionism, there wasn't anything called 'Opium Wars' but instead some trade wars between the UK and Qing Era China. 'Opium' was JUST ONE of the many things but if you named them anything you'd name them the 'Silver Wars'. Chinese went out to British Merchant ships and purchased opium, then they brought it onshore (for most of this time it's not illegal) then Chinese, after brining opium into China then create their own distribution and networks and sales and Chinese buy it etc. There isn't some easy comparison or some 'two equal wrongs' in the Silver wars and the opium trades either. not to manufacturers in China who work 'de-criminalized' and produce fentanyl (or ingredients) and mail or smuggle them directly into the USA after numerous strong agreements.
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