it's a 25% import tax paid by the importer. when their margins are added, and then the distributors' on top of their higher costs, at each step of the distribution chain.. it'll be a fair bit more than 'just' +25% once product reaches the store shelves.
back in the first episode, lord diaper whined, and whined and shit on nafta, forcing it to be 'renegotiated' by him. he just had to have his name on everything.
nafta was a long time in the making, from reagan, to bush, to clinton when it finally went into effect. it had bipartisan support in congress, a little stronger from the right.
undone by a single shart from an orange moron that leaked, and then magically 'fixed' by the same..
in the end, what mr. art-of-the-fucking-deal managed to 'negotiate' is almost entirely the same as the nafta he hated so much.
now he's shitting on his own fucking deal. fuck'm.
i fully support your efforts to avoid our products and companies for the next few years. and if anyone up there wants to come renovate the white house again...... i won't be in your way.
exclude oil, and the u.s. has a trade surplus with their northern neighbor.
so leaving oil without the extra tax, then there is not even that flimsy concept of an excuse to have the tariffs in the first place.
translation:
he will do what the diaper demands; and we already know how that will go.
republicants boycott progress.
every. single. time.
"trump is a dei hire!"
i think he's got a great gig. he's technically 'correct' either way:
an 'early spring' is mid to late march around here, and 'six more weeks' nearly gets us to the spring equinox on the calendar anyway.
some dinglebutt is gonna suggest privatizing faa or at least atc.
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if you moved australia and new zealand to the south atlantic on a map, mr 'dumbest goddamn student i ever had' wouldn't even know it was wrong.
give it time.. we're gonna need a lot more prison space. like whole penal colonies, even. lord diaper likes the idea of invading friendly island nations, what's another?
a real promo flyer received here in 2006. been hanging in the office ever since.
cpb receives a not insignificant amount of federal funding. but since the pba, which established the cpb in 1967, specifically gives no control to the feds--they'll just nuke the whole thing instead.