Trump still hasn't figured out tariffs are a tax on consumers | Trump announces “External Revenue Service”

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Callatoroy said:
I'm not knowledgeable about the amount of drugs coming in from Canada. He obviously has some reason for it so what is the story of fentanyl coming through canada and why does trump think canada isn't doing anything to stop it?
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It's not about the drugs, dummy. It's about the power. Drugs are just the excuse. He's never cared about the drugs. His immigration policies resulted in more fentanyl crossing the border, because he created a captive work force for the cartels.

Why do you think Trump has a reason when he has done his absolute best to communicate to you people that he doesn't have reasons for most of what he does?
 

Trump warns global business leaders of more tariffs as he forges ahead with agenda​


“… President Donald Trump slammed his predecessor’s policiesand said his presidency began a “revolution of common sense” in remarks to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, where he warned business leaders to make their products in the US or face tariffs. He also said he wants OPEC and Saudi Arabiato cut the cost of oil to help end the war in Ukraine.



Trump pitches world businesses to make products in the US to receive "lowest taxes of any nation on Earth​


“My message to every business in the world is very simple. Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth. We’re bringing them down very substantially, even from the original Trump tax cuts. But if you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then very simply you will have to pay a tariff, differing amounts, but a tariff which will direct hundreds of billions of dollars and even trillions of dollars into our treasury to strengthen our economy and pay down debt,” Trump said during his remarks at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
 
altmin said:

Canadian, Mexican steel mills refusing US orders.
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I’m not sure I believe that the American steel company owner is just going to accept tariffs on steel from his newly acquired Canadian steel company because MAGA, but it is what he says. I suspect by accept it, he means lobby hard to get exemptions for import of steel from an American owned steel mill in Canada — which might make sense depending on the intent of the tariff.

Is it to force more jobs into the USA or punish Canada for some policy?
 
nycfan said:
I’m not sure I believe that the American steel company owner is just going to accept tariffs on steel from his newly acquired Canadian steel company because MAGA, but it is what he says. I suspect by accept it, he means lobby hard to get exemptions for import of steel from an American owned steel mill in Canada — which might make sense depending on the intent of the tariff.

Is it to force more jobs into the USA or punish Canada for some policy?
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I admire that you think there's a coherent strategy with these tariffs.
 
finesse said:
I find it interesting that he couldn't get accepted at USC where he wanted to go when he was a rich white male applying to a school that, at the time, was taking about 70% of their applicants but managed to transfer into a school that took less than 30% after a relative called in a personal favor from an ex room mate. I'm sure that bachelor's degree he has was well earned.
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There's a good reason his grades are on lockdown.
 
finesse said:
Interesting article from the Cato Institute.



  • Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
  • In 2021, U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
  • Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
  • The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are about 97 percent less likely to be stopped than are people crossing illegally between them.
  • Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.
  • The government exacerbated the problem by banning most
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Just echoes what Ive always said.

The drug problem in the US starts with the ravenous demand for drugs from US consumers.
 
CRHeel94 said:
Just echoes what Ive always said.

The drug problem in the US starts with the ravenous demand for drugs from US consumers.
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Yeah. The best thing we could do is legalize pretty much everything. There'll be a human cos without doubt. But, since that would let you control for strength and purity, it would likely be less that the current state of affairs where much of the damage is done by drugs cut with more dangerous ones or sold as something they are not. It would go a long way to cutting the legs out from under the cartels and save a tremendous amount on enforcement. That could be used, along with the taxes from the legal drugs for better drug education and rehabilitation.

That won't help everybody. There are some whose lives just drive them into dangerous behavior. I actually was one for a while and Stephen Stills was right. "If you can't be with the one you love..."
 
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Trump tells World Economic Forum U.S. doesn’t need Canadian oil, gas, autos or lumber

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States did not need Canadian oil, gas, autos or lumber and reiterated his suggestion that Canada become the 51st U.S. state.
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U.S. President Donald Trump says his country does not need to import Canadian oil, gas, autos or lumber.

“We’re going to be demanding respect from other nations ... Canada has been very tough to deal with over the years,” he told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, appearing via video conference before an audience of the world’s most powerful business and political leaders.

“We don’t need them to make our cars, and they make a lot of them. We don’t need their lumber because we have our own forests,” he continued. “We don’t need their oil and gas, we have more than anybody.”
 
^ enjoy your coming toilet paper shortage, something we did not have in Canada during the pandemic.
 
altmin said:
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Trump tells World Economic Forum U.S. doesn’t need Canadian oil, gas, autos or lumber

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States did not need Canadian oil, gas, autos or lumber and reiterated his suggestion that Canada become the 51st U.S. state.
www.cp24.com www.cp24.com
U.S. President Donald Trump says his country does not need to import Canadian oil, gas, autos or lumber.

“We’re going to be demanding respect from other nations ... Canada has been very tough to deal with over the years,” he told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, appearing via video conference before an audience of the world’s most powerful business and political leaders.

“We don’t need them to make our cars, and they make a lot of them. We don’t need their lumber because we have our own forests,” he continued. “We don’t need their oil and gas, we have more than anybody.”
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The funny thing is if he wanted the manufacturing to come back to the US, he should consider MCare4All. I remember an article about 20 years ago that said 1/4 of the cost of every car made in US was due to healthcare. I don't remember the specifics, but assume that included the cost of covering employees and retirees. MCare4All would shift the cost of healthcare away from employers.
 
Callatoroy said:
I'm not knowledgeable about the amount of drugs coming in from Canada. He obviously has some reason for it so what is the story of fentanyl coming through canada and why does trump think canada isn't doing anything to stop it?
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He has the same sorts of reasons that he did for saying people are eating cats and dogs in Springfield: someone said it on the TV shows he watches.
 
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