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To: combjelly who wrote (344029)	8/10/2025 2:29:11 AM
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>> The similarities are only that they are taxes. How they show up on the financials are very different. If you want to talk about financials, I can tell you in three seconds -- Increased expenses reduce net income. Doesn't matter whether it is the payment of tariffs or the payment taxes. It simply doesn't matter, the effect is the same: Less income, and for investors, lower ROI. Clearly, you lack any understanding of basic accounting. Or of basic business and finance. I am pretty sure I tried to explain this to you 15 or 20 years ago. >> How they influence the economy is very different. As I stated, both result in reduced ROI, and that ultimately affects consumers in precisely the same way. Increase expenses, whether cost of sales or tariffs (which ultimately increase cost sales) have precisely the same effects on consumers. If it happens that it increases the cost of, e.g., electricity, or gasoline, or whatever, those still trickle down. There is no difference economy-wide. This isn't that complicated.