Talk:3073: Tariffs

Uh, still no April fools Aprilfoolsupdate! (talk) 23:50, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

The April fools is the president the U.S. Elected. (note: I am Usanian)172.70.214.232 12:41, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

I felt like using all caps is a good idea for explanations, since the comic itself is all caps Aprilfoolsupdate! (talk) 00:03, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Please don't. If you did that, then all of the other explanations and transcripts would have to be edited to all-caps, which makes it harder to read. guess who (if you desire conversing | what i have done) 01:07, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Doesn't just about every xkcd comic use all-caps? That would make pretty much the entire wiki unreadable. 172.71.155.35 04:15, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

What's wrong with the explanation? It's showing this weird string of letters: expDia thud enzo Isla idiosyncrasies talk 3totheaudienceandtheotherswhoareyouheresoearlyinthedayafterMittenslefttodois sign up for both ofuscan'twaitforthemostparttobeabrightandwarmwelcomeandIhopethatyouwillfindapenthatwillOrbitz pap 162.158.159.8 20:23 7 April 2025 EST

Vandals --Btx40 (talk) 00:32, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm getting a few Cloudflare messages that the server isn't responding. I'm used to explainxkcd giving straight 503s, etc, but this is the kind of thing (code 522, in at least one case) that you get only when an active pressure (crap-spamming, etc) is being applied. I'm wondering if there's some pushback from the pro-tariff (or at least 'pro-Donald') online community. 172.70.85.32 11:12, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Hopefully, just HOPEFULLY, we can prevent the comment section from devolving into insults like https://xkcd.com/1756/: I'm With Her. Thehydraclone (talk) 01:51, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

I concur, though I want to stress that I think it's very important that we try to make this comic explanation as neutral as possible. Is it possible to not show a bias towards either side of the issue? Randall's comic obviously has a point of view, but perhaps the explanation on this site can be a little bit more neutral. Dogman15 (talk) 11:41, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

You stink! 172.70.91.181 13:09, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Comic 2566 was supposed to be a joke... --172.68.175.87 03:58, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

"venmo" needs explaining. Apparently it's some sort of USAian proprietary payment system? And I think Ponytail's company is providing a service (which the USA exports of lot of), rather than selling equipment - services usually not being captured by simple trade figures for goods. And in order to post here I have to identify features of foreign street scenes in order to train a monopolist's proprietary image recognition system. 162.158.216.115 13:03, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Ah, didn't read this first, but I just put a link in for that (slightly awkwardly, but best I could - expecting a later editor to better phrase/place it). Hadn't heard of it, myself. Presumably Leftpondians know about it a lot more, perhaps most do, given how much business it gets/facilitates only in the US. Anyway, consider me one of those that learnt something new today! (Not that I can, or would, use it, of course.) 172.70.163.71 13:19, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

I added this comic as an answer to a Politics.SE question. https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/60191/does-it-make-sense-to-treat-trade-deficit-as-tariffs/60229#60229 Barmar (talk) 14:41, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

This is unironically the best explanation of Trump's tariffs I've seen --162.158.212.171 14:49, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

I had a Facebook friend post almost the exact same analogy the day before this comic was released. So it is an idea that is out there. But since Trump do not care for the people who elected him, it is not his problem that everything gets more expensive in the US --Kynde (talk) 14:56, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Midwit take from Randall that fundamentally misunderstands that the goal is to bring back manufacturing capability to the USA. Warren Buffett proposed these exact tariff measures 20 years ago and is only now saying they're bad because Orange Man Bad Amirite. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/growing.pdf 172.68.12.75 (talk) 16:43, 8 April 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I've just read the paper you linked, which suggests issuing tradable / saleable import certificates to create a liquid market incentivizing a trade balance, one which is not country or industry directed at all and has, basically, nothing to do with Trump's "plan." They are not "the exact same" at all, and I'm not surprised that someone using "orange man bad" language is engaging in deception. 172.69.214.221 (talk) 17:24, 8 April 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)