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levzettelinyesterday at 5:46 PM1 replyview on HN

> Astronomical tariffs [...] and from all of this they got only $130B ?

Which is it? A number can't be small and large at the same time.


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californicalyesterday at 6:07 PM

To steel-man their sentence, it’s a large number to extract from US citizens, nearly $500/person. But it’s a small number in terms of government deficit and current spending