Politics Liberation Day - The biggest tax hike in world history

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  1. MickZagger

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    Tariffs like this are what turned a recession into the Great Depression
     
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    Thanks Obama.
     
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    Obummer.

    Republicans are supposed to be anti-tax until they got handed a red hat
     
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    This feels like a situation where someone gets their left arm cut off because they had a sliver in their little toe. 15 years ago.
     
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    Our phones have been quiet all week. They've been absolutely dead today...

    Machine shop.

    They were humming pretty good the last couple weeks...
     
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    Told ya. People aren't paying. At least not for the moment.
     
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    They went from being slow to being busy a few weeks ago. I was telling my coworkers they were just trying to beat the tariffs. Many are Trunpers so they didn't believe that was the case...

    We'll see...
     
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    what type of machine shop?
     
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    Job shop. Big on Intel fixturing work. But outside of that, automation, aerospace, all the way down to combine and winch parts.

    Mostly aluminum, steel and stainless.
     
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    Senator Chris Murphy laid out the purpose of the tariffs is political, not economic. They are indeed intended to cause economic pain. Since Trump made end run around Congress, who normally has power to fix tariffs (with groveling by Weaker of the House), only he can end them. He can exempt any business, industry, country from punishing tariffs, for the very small price of absolute political fealty to Donald Trump.

    Meanwhile, Fox "news" commentator Harris Faulkner explained that our crashed 401(k)'s are just the price of war. Like during World War II when civilians had to make sacrifices.
     
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