"Chinese Peasants"? Really?? This is precisely the kind of hateful and bigoted language that you'd expect from a Nazi.
It's also a bit rich to be calling the people YOU are borrowing billions from "peasants"... staggering.
"Facilitate" I do not interpret as meaning they can just drop it.
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They will, and while I do understand the concern over the ambiguous nature of the term, most legal terms have some level of ambiguity and are nonetheless to be given weight and carried out in accordance with the intent of context of the order. Mucking around that pretending that "facilitate" means essentially doing nothing is not likely to be accepted by the court as complying.
We received a quote a few days ago for some furniture for a project on campus and it had a line for tariff surcharge.Get Ready to See Tariff Surcharges on Your Receipts
Companies struck by Donald Trump’s trade levies will likely pass the hit along to consumers—and some will want to clearly point the finger at who is to blame.www.wired.com
Yes, but (and I'm really generalising here), wages paid for local/domestic production keeps the money within the American economy, it's spent at local American businesses, and the taxes are paid to the US government. I'm not advocating that the entire sweatshop industry gets picked up and moved to the US, but encouraging a broad range of domestically made products isn't something I disagree with personally - it just requires your average consumer to give a crap about something beyond their wallet... like, their society...
The funny part is that this was all implemented in such a poor way that no one really knows how to proceed.
Hell, Trump changing his mind on a whim each day alone can threaten that; I'm already reading about it in the import/export automotive circles b/c nobody knows the correct percentages.
Yeah, like I say, I'm not stanning this as an all encompassing strategy, but I do believe that the continual race to the bottom that consumers want to see for cheap prices, is a bad thing, and that's a global take, not a criticism of the US. If people appreciated that there might be additional value to a higher cost purchase, than just the object they're getting in return, I think that would be a good a thing. All we see in my town is people becoming Amazon distribution slaves.. pissing in bottles, fired based on 2 decimal place blips in productivity, but earning more than small businesses can afford to pay for unskilled labour. We ALL do need to encourage local manufacturing of some sort, it's how society works best.
The overwhelming sense is that companies are actually pulling back investment in the US (not to mention selling off US debt...which could honestly be nation-breaking) because chaos is simply bad for business.
Almost moreso than any particular policy. The irony of the business-loving conservatives hating on taxes and socialism is that chaotic policy (which they voted for) is even worse.
I'm hoping it's not just that, but that like-minded countries start trading with each other as well. So if the US wants to make it harder to trade with Canada or the UK, then I'm hoping Canada and the UK trade more with each other.
If Democrats had any balls they would further arm a future Republican government? Even setting aside my principled positions that no government is fit to be arbiter of the truth and racism itself violates no rights, that's still a hard pass from me because I don't want Republicans to be handed that power. Everyone would be better off if partisans would stop being stupid and remember that the pendulum swings.
I saw this described as a decision by a fake judge and I had to laugh because it's not that far off. Immigration judges, like small town magistrates, needn't have even gone to law school, but where they differ from magistrates is they are appointed rather than elected to that position. Immigration judges exist at the behest of the DOJ and with an ends-justify-means administration with so little respect for an independent judiciary or the rule of law, are effectively rubber stamps.
Half of US population: Hold my beer!
