#15 My 88 Olds 98, most reliable car I ever had. Drove it 5 years, the car was so front heavy (FWD) I drove for months with the right rear flat, wasent heavy enough in the rear to flatten the tire. Three tires kept it level.
#2 The joke is on us. High salary Americans pay upwards of 40-50% between state and federal income tax, FICA, sales tax, property tax, gas tax, capital gains tax. . . yet we get none of the benefits. Our universal college and healthcare were exported as war and bombs. #3 Nah, I don't like HIV. #4 Truth. Almost all of my K-12 education was worthless. I taught myself what I needed for the ASVAB, got out, and now I'm nearly A college student (Chemistry).
#8 if tariffs worked and 170 countries had them on America then there would be 170 countries that are now richer than America. i'm not good at geography, can someone help me find if those 170 countries are richer or poorer than us?
Anon@10:22: How much money those countries are making off the US depends on what they're selling and the demand for it. If a small Central American country is selling papayas to the US with a 100% tariff, they're not making much because Americans aren't a big consumer of papayas. That 100% tariff doesn't make them richer than the US if there's little or no demand for their product.
Blanket tariffs don't work. Tariffs are tax paid by consumers. Tariffs make products more expensive for consumers and therefore make you, the consumer, poorer.
Some limited/targeted tariffs could work in specific cases. You may want to tariff certain industries for strategic/national security reasons. You may use those tariffs to incentivize industries to move closer to home but it is always a combination of tariffs and incentives. Even in these cases tariffs are still paid by consumers. We as a country ay want to force consumers to pay more for steel or chipsets because we think it is in our strategic best interest; but the cost is still on the consumer's wallet
The US has imposed tariffs on products/countries that have no strategic value (papayas, mangoes, Lesotho, Madagascar, etc). We have imposed tariffs on products that we just can't produce because we don't have the infrastructure, territory, climate or raw materials (coffee, electric batteries, etc). Tariffs on products that we just CAN'T produce are just a price increase to everyone for NO strategic reason or potential upside.
We are offering NO incentives for companies to move what could be moved closer to home. To make things worse by flip flopping over and over again we are giving companies every incentive to do nothing. Why spend millions on a new plant in the US if tariffs may be canceled by next week.
Not to mention that the government has giving conflicting reasons to impose tariffs...
As a general rule seems like Trum is always asking the right question but always offering the wrong answer.
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#9 - definitely me. DEFINITELY ME.
ReplyDelete# 1. We need more constitutionalist
ReplyDelete# 2. That guy, he never makes sense
# 8. So much truth
# 9. Been there, done that
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#20 Outta the park
ReplyDelete#5 - you don't have smokey eyes, you look like a fucking racoon.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking a decomposing corpse.
Delete# 10 is definitely wrong. YT premium is well worth it and used by many.
ReplyDeleteRegular YouTube on the tablet or computer is fine, but on the TV it is nearly unwatchable because of the ads. Premium is likely your friend then.
DeleteWhat channel is YT on TV? I can't seem to tune it in on my Zenith
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Delete#15 My 88 Olds 98, most reliable car I ever had. Drove it 5 years, the car was so front heavy (FWD) I drove for months with the right rear flat, wasent heavy enough in the rear to flatten the tire. Three tires kept it level.
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#19. Not the vaxxed.....
ReplyDelete#2 The joke is on us. High salary Americans pay upwards of 40-50% between state and federal income tax, FICA, sales tax, property tax, gas tax, capital gains tax. . . yet we get none of the benefits. Our universal college and healthcare were exported as war and bombs.
ReplyDelete#3 Nah, I don't like HIV.
#4 Truth. Almost all of my K-12 education was worthless. I taught myself what I needed for the ASVAB, got out, and now I'm nearly A college student (Chemistry).
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#2 reminds me of an electric car driver bragging about zero emissions and plugging his car into a coal fired electrical generator plant.
ReplyDelete#8 if tariffs worked and 170 countries had them on America then there would be 170 countries that are now richer than America.
ReplyDeletei'm not good at geography, can someone help me find if those 170 countries are richer or poorer than us?
You're not very good at reasoning either.
DeleteAnon@10:22: How much money those countries are making off the US depends on what they're selling and the demand for it. If a small Central American country is selling papayas to the US with a 100% tariff, they're not making much because Americans aren't a big consumer of papayas. That 100% tariff doesn't make them richer than the US if there's little or no demand for their product.
DeleteBlanket tariffs don't work.
DeleteTariffs are tax paid by consumers. Tariffs make products more expensive for consumers and therefore make you, the consumer, poorer.
Some limited/targeted tariffs could work in specific cases. You may want to tariff certain industries for strategic/national security reasons. You may use those tariffs to incentivize industries to move closer to home but it is always a combination of tariffs and incentives. Even in these cases tariffs are still paid by consumers. We as a country ay want to force consumers to pay more for steel or chipsets because we think it is in our strategic best interest; but the cost is still on the consumer's wallet
The US has imposed tariffs on products/countries that have no strategic value (papayas, mangoes, Lesotho, Madagascar, etc). We have imposed tariffs on products that we just can't produce because we don't have the infrastructure, territory, climate or raw materials (coffee, electric batteries, etc). Tariffs on products that we just CAN'T produce are just a price increase to everyone for NO strategic reason or potential upside.
We are offering NO incentives for companies to move what could be moved closer to home. To make things worse by flip flopping over and over again we are giving companies every incentive to do nothing. Why spend millions on a new plant in the US if tariffs may be canceled by next week.
Not to mention that the government has giving conflicting reasons to impose tariffs...
As a general rule seems like Trum is always asking the right question but always offering the wrong answer.
I don't want to live to be 120 either with the way the world is headed now.
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