• Hobbes_Dent
    473 months ago
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    More getting other countries to pay for things I see. The hubris I swear.

    • BlameThePeacockEnglish
      593 months ago
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      Other countries don’t pay tariffs, people who buy the products do. So regular people.

      • Guy_Fieris_Hair
        73 months ago
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        Rich people pay people to design a product, without having to pay their employees income tax> send it overseas to be built > when the product comes back all the consumers pay a ridiculous amount for necessities because the cost of the terrif is absorbed into the price of the product. In the long run, consumers pay the tax in a different form, but the wealthy don’t have to pay that chunk that the employer matches.

    • talEnglish
      133 months ago
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      He only can get one more term, so I suppose he can promise whatever at this point. It’s not like he’s got credibility consequences for lack of follow through at this point.

      The swing states and their votes are:

      https://www.270towin.com/

      Nevada (6), Arizona (11), Wisconsin (10), Michigan (15), Pennsylvania (19), and Georgia (16).

      He needs 38 electoral votes out of that.

      Michigan+Pennsylvania+Wisconsin would do it on their own, and they’re all Rust Belt states, so I figure that promising protectionist policy on manufacturing is probably gonna sell well there.

      https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/pennsylvania/

      https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/wisconsin/

      https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/michigan/

    • dan1101
      43 months ago
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      That is his dream for everything, it’s how he lives his sham life. And it causes a lot of issues along the way but what does he care, he has a jet and his name on a skyscraper.