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.
so, who did ya put your money on?
the old snippits ‘powered by’ wikipedia and such would have gotten those.
perhaps the move to a human-hostile environment such as texas cost them some good employees.
trade it for sundays, then poop on the boss’s dime on monday.
the new ones at wm here aren’t even heated, they just blast the air extra super hard instead.
i carry several in a jacket pocket, just in case
correct.
hell, i could live my ‘best’ life off of musk’s ‘sofa cushion’ money:
$2.5m is more than enough for me to live on just using investment proceeds–in perpetuity.
$2.5m to him (with ~ $436b) is the equivalent of fifty-seven cents to someone with $100k (in the bank, investments, retirement, home equity, etc). now, i don’t have $100k, not even close. just using it as an example here. my equivalent would be more like half a cent.
most of that ‘hundreds of billions’ isn’t going to go towards the tech or infrastructure, it’s gonna go to people. a very small number of specific individuals.
they just weren’t making the kind of money that pleased the vultures and wall street.
if only he hadn’t fought back against being prosecuted.
he’d be in prison… or on death row… and we wouldn’t be in this mess—again.
it’s not really an “extra” key… but it is mapped differently (lsh+win+f23 or sumsuch) than one it might be ‘replacing’.
in us-ansi layout the right-side ctrl, a second winlogo or context menu key… could all be gone leaving only right alt and new copilot key between space and arrows.
double 1/3rd pound burger? off the regular price menu, upsized with curls. ya. that’ll be pricey for what you get.
next time do the ‘little’ double cheese in the ‘bag’ special. 2 burgers, fries, drink for like six and change.
state laws, including their constitutions, mean zip when federal law or the nation’s constitution conflicts and takes precedence.
if only the government had an ‘efficiency’ expert on staff… one would expect their evaluation of this proposal to be something like this:
we already have a long-time, trusted nationwide network of health care clinics… for women (and men)… that provides reproductive care (and more). absolutely no sense in reinventing the wheel, when this one has been going for 108 years. the easiest, cheapest, and most efficient thing to do would be to toss them some federal funds every year, let them provide the care that’s needed–where it’s needed, and stay the fuck out of the exam room and out of their way.
360 carpet, old sofa, a couple bean bags. speakers everywhere. beer cooler in the middle. sweet ride.
start?