This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
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It's weird, because pardoning implies the Turkey did something wrong.
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Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
So these tariffs...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg7y52n411o
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He has previously claimed that these taxes are "not going to be a cost to you, it’s a cost to another country".
Surely if you were importing into the USA, you just put your prices up to cover the tariff, impacting the end consumer?
If stuff is being imported, I would assume there is a demand for it because it's not produced locally?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg7y52n411o
From the article...
He has previously claimed that these taxes are "not going to be a cost to you, it’s a cost to another country".
Surely if you were importing into the USA, you just put your prices up to cover the tariff, impacting the end consumer?
If stuff is being imported, I would assume there is a demand for it because it's not produced locally?
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Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Congratulations, you've understood basic economics better than the president electKungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:04 am Surely if you were importing into the USA, you just put your prices up to cover the tariff, impacting the end consumer?
The other thign which happens is, foreign suppliers stop selling in the US and US firms enjoy a better domestic market. This stifles innovation in the US (why bother making products better when you have no competition?), then if/when the tariff comes down you suddenly have a load of competition from superior foreign firms and you go out of business.
Did Mexico ever end up paying for that wall?
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It's a pardon from being killed and eaten at thankgiving. A long tradition.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 8:54 am It's weird, because pardoning implies the Turkey did something wrong.
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yeah I get that, but that's not really a pardon Pardoning is when you let someone off the consequences of a conviction (which, just for pedantry, is not the same as saying someone is innocent).wheelnut wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 10:42 amIt's a pardon from being killed and eaten at thankgiving. A long tradition.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 8:54 am It's weird, because pardoning implies the Turkey did something wrong.
I suppose the Turkey has been convicted of being delicious and easy to catch.
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Wild turkeys live in the woods near my sister in law's place in Tennessee. You wouldn't mess with one unless you were carrying a gun, they're feisty things. And big. Dunno whether they're delicious or not...
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They taste like Whisky.... Apparently.mangocrazy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:02 pm Wild turkeys live in the woods near my sister in law's place in Tennessee. You wouldn't mess with one unless you were carrying a gun, they're feisty things. And big. Dunno whether they're delicious or not...
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I know, but Biden was so confused I'm surprised he didn't appoint them to his cabinet.
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I thought it was the other way around. Every day is a school day.Skub wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:18 pmThey taste like Whisky.... Apparently.mangocrazy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:02 pm Wild turkeys live in the woods near my sister in law's place in Tennessee. You wouldn't mess with one unless you were carrying a gun, they're feisty things. And big. Dunno whether they're delicious or not...
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Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
In comparison to the turkeys Trump’s appointing? Just for balance, like.
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The tariffs are merely a threat. Trudeau & Sheinbaum have two months to get their fucking act together. If other countries want to get in a tariff/trade war, the US can just stop exporting food to them.
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Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Or BMW and audi start builiding factories in the USMr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:52 amCongratulations, you've understood basic economics better than the president electKungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:04 am Surely if you were importing into the USA, you just put your prices up to cover the tariff, impacting the end consumer?
The other thign which happens is, foreign suppliers stop selling in the US and US firms enjoy a better domestic market. This stifles innovation in the US (why bother making products better when you have no competition?), then if/when the tariff comes down you suddenly have a load of competition from superior foreign firms and you go out of business.
Did Mexico ever end up paying for that wall?
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They already have, TBF.
But then if Europe for example puts a retaliatory trade barrier up they then need two factories, which might be more expensive, and so on.
But then if Europe for example puts a retaliatory trade barrier up they then need two factories, which might be more expensive, and so on.
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And the ones made in Germany will be better.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 6:01 pm They already have, TBF.
But then if Europe for example puts a retaliatory trade barrier up they then need two factories, which might be more expensive, and so on.
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Mentioned in ZZ Tops Arrested For Driving While Blind.Skub wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:18 pmThey taste like Whisky.... Apparently.mangocrazy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:02 pm Wild turkeys live in the woods near my sister in law's place in Tennessee. You wouldn't mess with one unless you were carrying a gun, they're feisty things. And big. Dunno whether they're delicious or not...
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They've done the tariff thing before.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 6:01 pm They already have, TBF.
But then if Europe for example puts a retaliatory trade barrier up they then need two factories, which might be more expensive, and so on.
In 1930, Hoover signed the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, which taxed imports with the intention of encouraging buyers to purchase American products, which worsened the Depression because foreign governments retaliated with tariffs on American exports.
Harold Wilson, on the other hand, had an 'I'm backing Britain' campaign to encourage people to buy home-made stuff instead of furrin. You could even get stickers!
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There’s very little new under the sun, and (excepting vote grabbing rhetoric) there’s generally a reason why things are done the way they are.Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:12 pmThey've done the tariff thing before.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 6:01 pm They already have, TBF.
But then if Europe for example puts a retaliatory trade barrier up they then need two factories, which might be more expensive, and so on.
In 1930, Hoover signed the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, which taxed imports with the intention of encouraging buyers to purchase American products, which worsened the Depression because foreign governments retaliated with tariffs on American exports.
Harold Wilson, on the other hand, had an 'I'm backing Britain' campaign to encourage people to buy home-made stuff instead of furrin. You could even get stickers!
We tend to be poor students of history.
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Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Beemer SUVs are built by 11,000 employees in South Carolina, 1500/day. Factory has been there since '94.
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We sure as fuck didn't learn anything from Napoleon & Hitler marching on Moscow...
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Biden giving a speech right now about the ceasefire in Lebanon... & just read the same paragraph twice.