vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agoWhite House blasts Amazon over tariff cost report: 'Hostile and political act'www.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down13cross-posted to: economics@lemmy.worldconservative@sh.itjust.works
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minus-squarerocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·3 days agoI think Bezos long-term plan is to pressure Trump to back down on tariffs, then keep prices high anyway and keep Trump tax cuts. The oligarchs will infight, but at the end of the day, normal people lose either way.
minus-squareNuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoI always want to think the worst of bezos et al but: If the plan was just to jack up prices they wouldn’t make this distinction.
I think Bezos long-term plan is to pressure Trump to back down on tariffs, then keep prices high anyway and keep Trump tax cuts.
The oligarchs will infight, but at the end of the day, normal people lose either way.
I always want to think the worst of bezos et al but:
If the plan was just to jack up prices they wouldn’t make this distinction.