One of my employees just doesn’t understand how the tariffs work. His hours are getting cut, almost entirely, and he thought I was giving him the run around when I told him it was because of the tariffs. They’ve slowed sales in our industry and increased our costs, plain and simple. He asked, condescendingly, why Canada and China having to pay us an extra tax would slow down sales on the consumer end. Said it shouldn’t make a difference on packaging. I’ve explained it to him before they hit, and it seemed to go in one ear and out the other. I had just placed a few orders at increased pricing so I gave him the most top to bottom explanation I could down to the individual duties applied to different materials in our components. He was shocked that tariffs were just an extra tax on us and that the US doesn’t just have the capability to produce EVERYTHING. At the end, he said that’s not what he thought when he voted for them and didn’t understand why he was told the other countries pay the tariffs. Another one of our guys was into the tariffs until I explained it. He did some research and got it instantly. His hours weren’t at risk but he was still pissed off at how badly it will impact his family and the business. I’m sick of explaining tariffs and wish that people were better at doing their own research.