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A comment on Ask HN: Do you think tariffs are about anything other than creating inflation?.

Re:Ask HN: Do you think tariffs are about anything other tha... by dlcarrier on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:44AM (#49461281)
If inflation is the end goal, quantitative easing works much better.

Tariffs aren't about much else than taxes. Tariff wars aren't two countries trying to fight each other, they're two countries using the other as an excuse to raise taxes without calling it a tax hike.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think tariffs are about anything other tha... by dfps on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:39AM (#49466620)
Will citizens accept that more blatant form of inflation creation (QE) though? or do popularly elected politicians need to somehow create support or 'inevitability' for a workaround (trade war)?

For sure tariffs are a form of tax, but at what point is a tax revenue and at what point is it moreso just inflation?

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