US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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From what I understand: The prior tariff announcements on Mexico and Canada are staying as previously announced. Russia isn't on the list because we've already sanctioned them to the point we aren't trading with them anymore.

Australian Prime Minister now announcing this is all sad and they'll cry in their Foster over it, but won't do anything.
Mexico and Canada have a trade deal so the way Trump is dealing with the tariffs is through another mechanism, mostly by calling a national emergency over the border. I don't know if he can just raise tariffs on them for another reason without going through congress or dealing with the USMC in another way. Also, for the parts that matter i.e cars and manufacturing, they don't tariff the US, so it's not like Trump can impose anything tit-for-tat with tariffs, just "trade barriers" which he has already negotiated down in the USMC. They have to be handled seperately otherwise they'd probably just get like milk tariffs for Canada and oil tariffs for Mexico.
 
From what I understand: The prior tariff announcements on Mexico and Canada are staying as previously announced. Russia isn't on the list because we've already sanctioned them to the point we aren't trading with them anymore.

Australian Prime Minister now announcing this is all sad and they'll cry in their Foster over it, but won't do anything.
Sheinbaum has been surprisingly lax about the entire thing. It's very likely she's hoping for exemptions so long as she keeps agreeing to cooperate with immigration and dismantling the cartels. Canada is just retarded.
 
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explains my confusion, the numbers on the left dont equal any tariffs

DID I CRACK IT? I think I figured out at least a chunk of the math. It's trade deficit divided by their exports. EU: exports 531.6, imports 333.4, deficit 198.2. 198.2/531.6 is 37, close to 39. Israel: exports 22.2, imports 14.8, deficit 7.4. 7.4/22.2 is 33.
 
seems like the governor of maine, after fucking around near the start of trump's new term, has begun to find out.
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maine's averaged federal funding just for education, if that's all this covers, is between $250,000,000 and $400,000,000. makes up about 10% of their total education budget, so this is not an insignificant amount of money that was just yanked, and that's if they ONLY yanked education funding.
stupid question, what's stopping maine from saying "fuck you, i'm out" and joining Canada? I don't think theirs any major bases up there, right?
 
stupid question, what's stopping maine from saying "fuck you, i'm out" and joining Canada? I don't think theirs any major bases up there, right?
their ability to actually defend and enact that statement/decision, and canada welcoming them in, are two that jump straight to mind.

it would be much easier for maine to simply stop allowing men to participate in womens' sports.
 
what's stopping maine from saying "fuck you, i'm out" and joining Canada?
Maine has absolute ass-tons of people on food stamps, which are federally funded. Many others are working jobs based out of other states, which means they'd get double income taxed by both Canada and the USA. Maine is overrun with New Yorkers owning 2nd homes, etc.
 
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