Nope, I wrote the post wrong. I can understand safety and quality regulations or things along the line but forcing another nation company to decide to copy "American values" is just frustrating to hear. This administration is just really frustrating but I often compare it to when we elected President Obama. But I have to give it a chance..sadly
Employment is slavery. Consumerism is oppression. You will live in a cube. You will eat the bugs.
I guess tariffs could work if you have a healthy, fully domestic industry (including their full supply chain) that is able to handle the demand of the entire country.
Tariffs are working great! If I go to my local grocery store (which is a Canada wide chain), they've pulled the majority of American made products off of the shelves, forcing me to buy Canadian. Now, Canadian products aren't always as good as the American alternatives, but being Canadian they are usually somewhat cheaper, so my monthly grocery bills are going down somewhat!
Enjoy a bag of milk.
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I'm sure some penguins are good creatures. But they aren't sending their best, they've got some bad hombres amongst themGuys, stop panicking. This is a negotiation tactic. It's about time the penguins start paying their fair share.
Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica
Australian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US presidentwww.theguardian.com
If they declare war on us and invade, we would deserve it.
Of course not. Trump's argument to his cult is that all the companies will move their facilities here & give Americans jobs. But, that doesn't factor in that that takes 2-4 years minimum depending on the size & that materials to produce whatever products still require foreign sources.
Trump himself may have no idea, but I don't doubt that there are people around him that are intelligent enough. They want this to happen, it's not a mistake. They're fine with Trump and Musk being the guys out in front that will take the heat if it all goes wrong.
Because the US is a big enough customer that they think they can bully the rest of the world into compliance. And to a certain extent they're right, they hold a lot of potential power and it would be very uncomfortable for all involved if they were to choose to use it.
That's the point though. Rich people profit in times of turmoil and instability, because they have the ability to speculate and quickly take advantage of opportunities. Poor people struggle even harder to get by.
Y'all put milk in your goon bags? But where do you put your goon?
Also the jobs making those goods won't pay well, the goods won't be inexpensive, and people making them will neither be able to afford them nor have access to inexpensive goods that they can afford.
There's still the death threats from worthless Trumpers (but I repeat myself).
That's really the point: globalization provided the opportunity to produce manufactured goods much more cheaply than they would have been without manufacturing shifting to Asia. This benefited the owner class the most, but it also benefited everyone else who was able to buy clothes, electronics and everything else more cheaply. Introducing tariffs will make everything imported more expensive and any manufacturing that returns to the US will result in higher prices for the US produced goods. US business owners will try to drive worker pay down, or further automate, with the result that the net benefit to American workers will be minimal.
Depends on what you mean by "could work". If the domestic industry is able to compete with imported products then there's no need for any tariffs. If it's unable to compete, then it's either more expensive and/or of a worse quality. Demand is going to drop in any case, fewer products will be sold and businesses will go out of business.
God I used to watch him back during late teens, rebel phase and was into right wing politics.Huh. When things get too expensive, you can just not buy them and so you should shut up about the policy that made them more expensive? That's so enlightened.
So, uh, where was that attitude when it cost a crazy $125 including tax and tip to have two bloomin' onions, a steak salad, lobster tails, a filet, a chicken sandwich and a sirloin DoorDashed because of Bidenflation?
I meant it as a 'could work in a hypothetical world that isn't our world'. The assumptions required for it to work were maybe true a few hundred years ago (it won't have been true anymore by the time that the US was formed). Industrialization and globalization made it impossible to work (at least effectively without major drawbacks).
The list of internet top level domains (TLDs) is based on the standard ISO list of countries. This list also includes some territories. So I think they used the ISO list and not the TLD list. That's at least a bit more reasonable.My god.
They most likely used a random list of geographic entities. I am almost positive Trump and any of his dimwits never heard of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a small collection of islands part of France just off the coast of Newfoundland. It has a population of 5,000 and barely imported anything from America (while exports totaled $100K). As a result, the tariffs are 50%. If people's lives weren't affected by this it would be ridiculously funny how an administration can be this stupid (2 weeks after broadcasting military plans to a journalist). Until enough people in the House and Congress stand up to this (and it really will only take 10 people in the House and 5 people in Congress), this will keep happening.
