Tariffs

Discussion in 'Politics' started by UsualName, Apr 2, 2025.

  1. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    EXCELLENT POINTS AND ONES THAT I HAD NOT CONSIDERED
     
    #51     Apr 4, 2025
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  2. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    Milton Friedman----

    Inflation is made by Government and no one else. Of course no Government likes to accept
    responsibilities. . . responsibility for its own defects, so Governments of course blame greedy business men,
    grasping trade unionists, and spend-thrift consumers. No doubt business men are greedy; no doubt trade
    unionists are grasping; and everyone knows that housewives are spendthrifts; but neither the greedy business
    men nor the grasping trade unionists nor the spendthrift housewives produce inflation. The reason they do
    not produce inflation is because none of them has access to a printing press on which he can turn out those
    lovely, or some people think not so lovely, pieces of paper with which you purchase goods and services. No
    one of them has the authority to create deposits at the central bank
     
    #52     Apr 4, 2025
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  3. Ricter

    Ricter

    That's a great thing about (most) recessions: inflation falls!
    :D
     
    #53     Apr 4, 2025
  4. This is a whole different generation. I was working during the massacre in the 70's and 80's when all of manufacturing got wiped out. That was bloody. Now it's their turn. Blue collar been getting hosed for decades, just how it goes. My point was people live in the now. Yesterday's lover is today's bitch. Only good as your recent deal. Trump about to find that out this goes much further.
     
    #54     Apr 4, 2025
  5. GM makes shitty cars and why shouldnt GM move the plants to Canada and Mexico since American consumers are demanding cheaper cars like what Honda and Toyota offer at better quality.

    GM been bailed out several times...should have been allowed to fail if it cannot compete.

    Blindly supporting inferior products made in America is not patriotism it is ignorance. You all suck down on your iphones and computers from American companies made in Asia because.... IT IS CHEAPER! Tell me everything you own is US made.....its not.

    Careful you don't twist an ankle coming off that high horse.



     
    #55     Apr 4, 2025
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  6. elderado

    elderado

    Sure, Jans. Speaking of today's Bitch.

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    The EU must defend itself against China dumping cheap products into the EU now rejected by the USA.

    Hahaha bitches. All is fair when you're fucking with the Americans, right?
     
    #56     Apr 4, 2025
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  7. This doesn't end well except for the usual suspects. We'll be in a shooting war by June, domestic and foreign.
     
    #57     Apr 4, 2025
  8. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    You mean with the average tariff between the EU and USA being about one percent before this?
     
    #58     Apr 4, 2025
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  9. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    Trump will finally get to fight his Vietnam war after they respond to pressure from the rest of Asia to fuck his "deal."
     
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    #59     Apr 4, 2025
  10. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    I dunno, for years I have been squirreling money away into gold, taking advantage of local Colombian mines and miners wanting to be paid abroad.

    I have enough now to make a little statue of the wife about 18 inches tall with her actual weight in gold.

    I suggested this to her and she asked if that was including the weight of her gold clothes? I give up, can't please some people.
     
    #60     Apr 4, 2025
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