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Banana tariffs.

Rexedgar said:
Lutnick is such an ass. I don’t understand how he was a successful businessman.
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Lutnik is the worst of the worst as a spokesman. He says the absolutely most stupid things.
 
Grand Mal said:
Seriously? There's an import tariff on bananas?
That can't be right. Has the American government really become that incompetent, that stupid?
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Yes, but the banana industry is trying to educate them:

www.bluebookservices.com

Banana industry works for tariff exemption

Tom Stenzel, executive director of BANA, said he and BANA members are working with government leaders to gain an exemption for bananas.
www.bluebookservices.com www.bluebookservices.com
 
Rexedgar said:
Lutnick is such an ass. I don’t understand how he was a successful businessman.
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I think being super wealthy requires being an ass, to some extent. There's a lot of trampling on people and stepping over bodies when you get to that level in the world of private equity and investment funds.
 
Grand Mal said:
Seriously? There's an import tariff on bananas?
That can't be right.
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I mean, they put tariffs on literally everything and said they'd figure it all out later.

Grand Mal said:
Has the American government really become that incompetent, that stupid?
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Yes, because the average voter is and doesn't really understand what they're voting for anymore. We're influenced by highly-addictive technologies that influence how we think, to the point where we don't think at all or don't know how or what to think.
 
forn said:
You're assuming Trump is stupid, but I think he wants the money (for the government).
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He is stupid. There's no room for doubt. And he's funding the government by taxing ordinary Americans. Bananas? 10% tariff? Call it a dime a bunch. So 1%, the wealthy, pay a dime each and the 99%, the not wealthy, pay a dime each.
The arithmetic is pretty simple.
And the really surprising thing is that Trump, for all his stupidity, has managed to sell enough equally stupid people his snake oil that now he's President of the United States
Only in America.
 
Grand Mal said:
He is stupid. There's no room for doubt. And he's funding the government by taxing ordinary Americans. Bananas? 10% tariff? Call it a dime a bunch. So 1%, the wealthy, pay a dime each and the 99%, the not wealthy, pay a dime each.
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Now you've moved the goalposts. Before, you were claiming he was stupid because he didn't know that bananas weren't grown in America. Now you're saying he's stupid because there are more poor people than wealthy. It's true, no matter what Trump does, the Democrats will hate on him for it.
 
forn said:
Now you've moved the goalposts. Before, you were claiming he was stupid because he didn't know that bananas weren't grown in America.
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No I didn't. I just said he was stupid for putting tariffs on bananas
forn said:
Now you're saying he's stupid because there are more poor people than wealthy.
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I didn't say that either.
Both things are true. Trump is stupid. There's more poor than wealthy.
forn said:
It's true, no matter what Trump does, the Democrats will hate on him for it.
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Probably true. Unless he resigns.
 
Metric Mouse said:
They didn't actually say "we can't build bananas in the United States ", did they?

Did they literally not know about US banana production?

Who elected these ****ing idiots?
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We do have some banana production, it's just very minimal and could never satisfy demand.
 
forn said:
You're assuming Trump is stupid, but I think he wants the money (for the government).
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You OK with Trump imposing a National Sales Tax on American businesses and consumers? The authority to Impose taxes rests with Congress not with the President.
 
 
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