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Should be a wild four years.

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EPA blown the fuck out for overreaching. Supreme Court says the EPA can’t place additional restrictions on the treatment plant based on the quality of the receiving body of water such as the SF Bay. They said that if the treatment plant has already followed all of the EPA’s rules then there’s no need to ding the treatment plant or its permits because the Bay has additional pollutants.

The responsibility of the Bay’s health and a plan to bring pollutants down in the Bay falls on the EPA. The EPA will need to produce a plan to bring pollutants down on their dime.

Government overreach blown the fuck out. (Even though it’s against SF. Small victories.)
 
It also bears repeating that the economy has been in a recession since 2020
Dude, we never recovered from 2008. We got close with Trump's first term and then the powers that be shilled COVID. They do not care about the economy or about the harm they inflict upon regular human beings. These people believe they are the masters of the universe and do not care how many eggs they have to crack to make their special snowflake omelet that's never been really tried before.
 
And to have JD "Couch Rider" Vance institute a Fatwa against Democrats, who may or not be involved, triggering Civil War 2: Autistic Boogaloo?

Please don't, I am afraid of things truly happening, for when they do it's never a good thing.
Actually, I think Vance will reverse Trump's actions and gain the approval of the right and left. I mean he was in drag and has a transgender friend. Don't believe me...well take a look at this:



I am just saying, Vance is doing it as an act.
 
To be fair you can’t do everything domestically, especially not at the same price point global supply chains offer. Not every material is available domestically, not every crop can be grown in America. So unless you want to people to pay more or cut worker benefits/wages, you’re gonna need some kind of outsourcing to keep things profitable, and even then you still can’t get rare earths from Wisconsin. I guess you can depend solely on local timber for your wood, but then you just deforested your own country. Seems like a bad swap to me. Resources are finite, exploiting only domestic resources eventually leaves you depleted.
We are a market. Many people want to sell things.

The flip side is some countries run on overproduction and need people to buy the shit they make. This is a continuous problem of China’s.

Consider that in China, a Chinese person could expect to pay $15,000 for a new Nissan Sentra, while in the US we’d be expected to pay $25,000
 
welcome to tarrif day

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Serious question guys. Tarrifs on China I get but why Mexico and Canada? Most goods go back and forth across the two borders constantly before finishing in the USA. Furthermore Mexico and Canada are major agro partners. what's the goal here? It seems like a sledgehammer is being used when a scalpel could be better.
 
Serious question guys. Tarrifs on China I get but why Mexico and Canada? Most goods go back and forth across the two borders constantly before finishing in the USA. Furthermore Mexico and Canada are major agro partners. what's the goal here? It seems like a sledgehammer is being used when a scalpel could be better.
Buy and make american.
 
So there's a chance I'm gay because I traded sex for knowledge with that Asian "girl" I met outside Raytheon wearing my employee badge...
Let's start a charity for incels, we print Raytheon and FBI and NSA badges for them, and send them to bars near those places.

They get laid, CHYNA gets some useless incel knowledge; win-win.
 
Where do you think the importer gets the money to pay the tax? Do you think that when business taxes of one kind or another go up, businesses go to their Money Mines and order their Cash Dwarves to mine for money even harder?
I'll take Trump raising prices to put the screws to these arrogant countries versus Biden raising prices because his fiscal policy was money printer go brrrr.
 
Mexico is going to be feeling the heat worse than Canada IMO. They have had huge success from their maquiladoras and lack this new found Patriotism and Pride that Canada now has (Where was this when Jeets were flooding the country? We may never know). I think Canada might actually have the ability to weather the storm more than the U.S. since they seem to be working together as a nation (Post nation state anyone?) where as Americans are going to be pissed from the price increase, but I think Mexico is going to capitulate fast.
 
Serious question guys. Tarrifs on China I get but why Mexico and Canada? Most goods go back and forth across the two borders constantly before finishing in the USA. Furthermore Mexico and Canada are major agro partners. what's the goal here? It seems like a sledgehammer is being used when a scalpel could be better.
Mexico and Canada facilitate smuggling Chinese fentanyl into America.

We asked them to stop and they played dumb about it
 
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