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Trump is going to crash our economy sooner or later.
 
Mycroft said:
shrug...

Of course, when the hammer comes down (tariffs), people will do what they can to avoid being hit. Well, Trump just took their latest move away from them.

It's time for them to pay up for a change.
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No one is trying to avoid them, this is something they simply have not had to deal with until now.

And they are not paying up, Americans are.
 
Japan too?

What a supreme **** up by Trump.

 
Mycroft said:
I support the "cause".

It's well past time that exporters into the US stop getting away with avoiding tariffs because of de minimus.
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I, for one, won't miss Temu. They've ripped me off a couple of times. Won't deal directly with China anymore.
 
Ishm said:
One of my wifes friends is going to miss out on her regular chocolate fix from down under until this gets sorted. Seems she is just days away from either having to go 'cold turkey ' , or eat US made chocolate, so things are getting pretty desperate.
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How many wives do you have?
 
MTAtech said:
How many wives do you have?
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SSshhhhhhh!! :whistle: :cool::eek: Don't tell my wives 🤕

I did notice the missing possessive apostrophe after I posted, but was too lazy to go back and edit it at the time.
 
Ishm said:
One of my wifes friends is going to miss out on her regular chocolate fix from down under until this gets sorted. Seems she is just days away from either having to go 'cold turkey ' , or eat US made chocolate, so things are getting pretty desperate.
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A fate worse than death.
 
SuperDS77 said:
The highest standard of living in the world? No idea to what you refer.

Sorry that your standard of living is so poor. I hope things get better for you.
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The USA rarely breaks the Top 10 for highest standard of living,
 
Mycroft said:
So, the issue here isn't Trump's EO. It's the inability of other country's postal systems to switch from no tariff to tariffs. They have to "retool" their systems. They had a month to do that. Sucks that they didn't.

Regarding DHL, if everyone else can figure out how to deal with the tariffs, why can't they? Sounds like they have an internal problem.
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While you are right about shippers keeping up, none of this needed to happen in the first place. You do realize that all these tariffs are nothing more than a delusional Trump fantasy. They are harming our already fragile economy.
 
The AntiDonald said:
While you are right about shippers keeping up, none of this needed to happen in the first place.
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Wrong.

It DID need to happen. It's way past time the US stops allowing the world to **** us over economically.

The AntiDonald said:
You do realize that all these tariffs are nothing more than a delusional Trump fantasy. They are harming our already fragile economy.
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The US economy isn't fragile.

There's a reason the world wants our money...we have a lot of it.
 
Airyaman said:
Again, you are completely missing the point.

The cause of this is not de minumus and importers trying to avoid it, it's the number of countries that now have tariffs and have deal with it. If there were no blanket tariffs, de minimus wouldn't even matter.
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No...

The exclusion was used to avoid any tariff on any product from any country for any reason...

Which is why the point; the tariffs were always in place, but shippers used the loophole to exclude their products by breaking them into smaller shipments.
 
Metric Mouse said:
No...

The exclusion was used to avoid any tariff on any product from any country for any reason...

Which is why the point; the tariffs were always in place, but shippers used the loophole to exclude their products by breaking them into smaller shipments.
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The bolded is a total fabrication. There were no blanket tariffs prior to Trump, and no tariffs on multiple countries outside of China, Mexico, and Canada prior to August.
 
Decypher said:
The USA rarely breaks the Top 10 for highest standard of living,
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I guess that depends on how it is defined. Different people value different things.

The most compelling bit of evidence would seem to be how many people are trying to come here.
 
SuperDS77 said:
I guess that depends on how it is defined. Different people value different things.

The most compelling bit of evidence would seem to be how many people are trying to come here.
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Desperate people from the third world. Europe is inundated with them as well.
 
 
Mycroft said:
Wrong.

It DID need to happen. It's way past time the US stops allowing the world to **** us over economically.


The US economy isn't fragile.

There's a reason the world wants our money...we have a lot of it.
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no, these tarrifs did NOT "need to happen". this huge tax increase by trump was completely voluntary and stupid.
 
SuperDS77 said:
I guess that depends on how it is defined. Different people value different things.

The most compelling bit of evidence would seem to be how many people are trying to come here.
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well, people are trying to get to a variety of countries. Not surprisingly, the US would be the destination for those in the western hemisphere, due to ease of travel.
which doesn't prove its worldwide position in standard of living of course
 
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Waves of cancellations and now Mexico has suspended package shipments to the US.
 
Geesh. What a pain. He's just not a good President. He sucks at everything. And the only reason why his supporters like him is because he's an asshole. I'm tired of it.

3.5 more years of more bullshit like this.

Dems going to have a 100-seat majority in 2026 if this stupid bullshit keeps up.
 
W_Heisenberg said:
Dems going to have a 100-seat majority in 2026 if this stupid bullshit keeps up.
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That is very optimistic.

There could be a swing…

But between rampant cheating and the American public simply not being smart enough, that will never happen.
 
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