I Wish Voters Had Payed Attention When Ben Stein Announced Tariffs

In addition to searches for the term “tariff” on Google, which increased after the election, searches for “Trump’s tariff plan” have also increased by more than 1650 percent since the election. “Who pays the tariffs?” searches have increased 350 percent since the election.

To see? They are not uninformed voters; they just waited to be informed until the election was over. Just like people who buy a crappy used car and start calling Consumer Reports! via Nightly:

The former president’s campaign promises include higher tariffs, tax cuts, deregulation and pressure to withdraw from major global agreements.

(…) The Republican candidate plans to impose a general tariff of 10 to 20 percent on all imports to the United States, as well as an extra tariff of 60 to 100 percent on goods imported from China. The decision frightened economists and retailers, who warned that the costs would fall on consumers, not exporters.

The National Retail Federation (NRF) has warned that tariffs could cost American consumers between $46 billion and $78 billion in essential goods, or about $2,600 per family per year. His analysis estimated that the cost of individual consumer goods could rise by tens, if not hundreds, of dollars.

Other Google searches on the rise after the election? “How to change my vote,” “birth control,” and “How to move to Europe.”