Political commentator Sam Seder shuts down Patrick Bet-David’s defense of Trump’s tariffs: “They just made up what the tariffs were”
Seder: “I'm not gonna punish the American people with a regressive tax because you have some literally elementary school notion of fairness"
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From the April 3, 2025, edition of PBD Podcast streamed on YouTube
SAM SEDER (GUEST): ‘Many observers said the US appeared to have divided the trade deficit by imports from a given country to arrive at tariff rates for individual countries. Such methodology doesn't necessarily align with conventional approach to calculate tariffs.' I mean, they've just made up what the tariffs were.
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BET-DAVID: You still haven't answered my question. My question is if that's accurate, if those numbers are accurate that we're being charged more --
SEDER: I'm not gonna punish the American people with a regressive tax because you have some literally elementary school notion of fairness.
BET-DAVID: If -- But you are though. But you are though. Elementary school?
SEDER: Honestly.
BET-DAVID: Here we go. If those are true. Okay? On them charging us more. Would you sit there and support --
SEDER: They're not charging us more, they're charging more for our products to get in there.
BET-DAVID: Do you think it's fair for us to pay twice as much they're -- we're charging them? Do you think that's fair?
SEDER: I don't think that fairness has anything to do with it.