How much of that number is that dragged upward by a handful of absurd outlier salaries in the coastal regions, like the mega-autist programmers who work for Google, Apple, etc, while the vast majority of the country goes deeper into credit card debt to pay for groceries and utilities, because $50k/yr doesn't go anywhere nearly as far as it used to, even in flyover country?
Witness the rise of poojeets and their gross incompetence.
This. After seeing all the tariffs countries were implementing against us that I didn't know about- Fuck Em. You really think the world can take on the US after we spent an entire century disarming you faggots, good luck. These tariffs are 1000% deserved and earned.
To be sorta fair, the FDA is incredibly strict about good manufacturing practices (GMPs). There are European pharmaceutical companies that can't sell in the US because their facilities don't pass FDA inspections. US GMPs focus a lot more on risk while EU GMPs focus on, frankly, doing a shitload of paperwork and following established protocols and guidelines. EU inspectors also operate on a schedule while US inspectors show up unannounced, and often spend more time going after facilities that fuck up.
Y'know what's funny? I don't even give a shit anymore if the numbers match. I've heard practically every other country in the world shit on us for decades while we foot the bill for all sorts of things for them. Fuck 'em all. Crank them tariffs! Remind 'em who's really in charge.
These tariffs don't just take into account their "tariff rates". Some of these countries flat out don't accept some of our products (beef in Australia). Many of them have VAT (a tax) directly on all "value added" to every company including US companies. Some times permitting takes years. Some of them (like China) use government banks to heavily subsidize their industry (something I want the US to do). China also keeps their currency cheap compared to the dollar. Making further investment in China easier. China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia also don't follow any of the climate accords. Yet America pays for all of these climate agreements. There are many things besides a bill that says "this is the tariff I'm charging US goods" that makes our goods less competitive. These Tariffs take these things into account.
That's my hope (give me your rainbows), that this will bring most of these countries to the negotiating table and result in freer trade in the long run. I don't buy the arguments that tariffs are actually good economic policy.
Israel. Whose really in charge is Israel.
So you’re being a coward here. Faggot
Stop pretending to be poor please, it's embarassing.
"Tariffs are bad, they haven't been used since the Age of Sail, they don't work, no one uses them anymore, and they're always bad for the economy."
They are uninhabitable now but if China got wind they didn’t have any tariffs you bet your ass a shipping dock would be built tomorrow.
A surprising amount of cheap clothing manufacturing has moved from China to SEA (South East Asia) and Bangladesh. China is having trouble finding enough cheap labor for their sweatshop sewing machines. I'm not sure why India isn't picking it up, but Bangladesh is the cheapest factory floor for large amounts of horrid shit-tier clothing.
Bro, I ignored you but I somehow still found this statement.
Ok thank you, I want to know more so I will hang out everywhere and listen up for talk!
The current push is "muh tarrifs are baaad" and "the tarrifs drumpf presented are innacurate!?!?!"
Your entire argument is basically “people don’t like it when you tell them to stop stealing from you, so you shouldn’t stop them from stealing
That's essentially the entire democratic platform.
Unlike Canada, the last time states tried to leave the union they got curb stomped by civil war. Now that the precedent is set, no state is leaving without war.
