To me, this is one of the largest issues. I don't know -- or historically have needed to know -- where my goods actually come from. I buy a thing for a price and it is delivered to me. When I buy common goods, I probably go to a store, but for anything that is uncommon, like a machine part, I'll find it online.

The internet and internet commerce has done wonders to allow us to buy a type 34 widget from ACME without having to spend hours finding a store that carries it or can custom-order it.

The de minimis exemption revocation does two things in the short term: increase the price of a type 34 widget due to tariffs, and add uncertainly as to whether it will come with unexpected overhead like a flat customs fee (sorry, reddit link), delays, or paperwork. People will choose to not buy items, from anywhere, when the rules are both constantly changing and unclear.

The rest applies to tariffs in general, and not the de minimis exemption.

In the long term, we're also fucked. Orange-D's policies have been struck down multiple times. In this case, I think he's asked the Supreme Court to rule on a tariff appeal in the last few days. Almost regardless of the outcome of that, our goods prices will rise, since the companies that sell them will never reduce the price just because the tariffs are removed.

This is the scam: If you are in on the timing, you can buy-low-sell-high when news hits about tariffs and make a ton of money off stocks. We don't have that info, so we can't act on it without guessing. Instead, the regular citizen just has to eat the added price of goods.

When my large appliances broke under warranty I'd sometimes find replacement parts on Amazon or eBay, install myself, and keep the replacement that inevitably shows up 90 days later as a spare.

Better than washing dishes by hand

It's what 77 million wanted. So, fuck them.

The thing is that not every idea they have is bad. No one wants an overflow of cheap junk from China, but the problem is obviously how they're going about it - basically halting trade in general rather than having a logical and pragmatic way of working; but then again their end goal isn't actually to improve USA or to help regular Americans in any way so it figures.

Hot take almost everything you own was partially or fully made in China or other Asian countries

Yeah, we've had a problem for a very long time. The tariffs should have been in place years to decades ago. We let US companies purchase from other countries and then resell in the US for easy profit. We allowed it to the point where U.S. manufacturing atrophied to the brink of non-existence.

We need a massive federal program to bring manufacturing back through small companies. Giant incentives to start manufacturing businesses. Create infrastructure to provide raw materials at cost to these companies by taxing the piss out big companies.

Once you can source plastic and metal goods in the US again, then start running tariffs, and only run it on goods that we can affordably manufacture here.

None of these manufacturing companies need to have yacht owners running them. Engineer it to keep it small. Force them to put the profits back into the people. Hell, maybe force them to be employee owned to get the grant.

Ending all parcels from 88 countries is not,

Millions of small retail or craft businesses now out of business: "haha so true bestie!"

not everyone buys from temu, some chinese products for asian business owners need the other stuff especially around asian related foods ingredients.

They're going to privatize it

That's what these assholes have been saying ever since they got on AOL in the mid-90s - "hey, email and FedEx can do everything USPS does, why don't we just get rid of it?"

Isn't it misleading to say they are losing money when they are funded by taxpayer dollars?