buffalo_bill Posted July 8, 2018 Report Share Posted July 8, 2018 After rereading this I think that "they" believe increasing import tariffs shall make America great again. Somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted July 8, 2018 Report Share Posted July 8, 2018 Jesus Christ, I was just trying to say that increasing import tariffs lead to higher domestic prices !!!!! Yes I know about the imbalances maybe much better than you and I even know that the jungle of international tariffs are based on a give and take over decades. This is much more complicated than a Trumpfollower will ever understand. European SUV´s cost 25 % import into the US and 10 vice versa. About your comparison of tariffs : if a US importer now buys steel from Canada and he has to pay 25 % import tax the consequence will be that he increases his domestic US sales price. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ??? Which is why the US car manufacturers are complaing now. THE US CONSUMER HAS TO PAY THE PRICE . After rereading this I think that "they" believe increasing import tariffs shall make America great again. Somehow. Bubi, you are as usual, spot on. Cavanami and Trump do indeed believe, that increasing the tariff on anything by the USA, is equivalent to placing a Tax on the target of the tariff. So a Trump Tariff on Cars from Germany, = Tax a German car maker, must pay, before sending a car to USA. So Germans pay Trump, woo hoo! Flaws in this, 1/. as Bubi says, USA customer pays Tariff. 2/. most BMW cars sold in USA, made in USA. 3/.Trumpanzee backlash against German car sales will result in "Harley Davidson" management practices for USA manufacturers, leading to job losses in USA. I'm explaining this, not for you Bubi, as you already know, but for Cavanami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 So Trump has already won with BMW...cars made in the USA....WOW...just like China does, manufacture inside our country... A tariff on BMW....WAKE UP...if made in the USA, no tariff and MORE JOBS in the USA The tariff will INCREASE JOBS in the USA *** if *** that company wants to see in the USA Understand???? Stretch your pico brain.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 A good summation from the Guardian, a bit of a read, too long for Cavanami, but worth a read never the less: Whose side is Trump’s America on? The answer is becoming more and more obvious. Simon Tisdall As the US president arrives in Britain on a ‘working visit’, his contempt for European allies poses an increasing threat Nato summits are generally unremarkable affairs, but this week’s two-day gathering in Brussels will be an exception. European members of the transatlantic alliance are pondering their biggest conundrum since its creation almost 70 years ago: is the US a friend – or a foe? Only 18 months ago, the question would have been dismissed as absurd. But the globally destructive impact of Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency has shattered conventional wisdom and left strategic and geopolitical certainties in ruins. The problem is not only that Trump will again insist on the other 28 Nato members increasing their defence spending, on the specious grounds the US is being “ripped offâ€. It’s not merely that he has queried the founding treaty’s article 5 commitment to collective defence, or that he may close US military bases in Germany. The more fundamental problem is that the US president is questioning the purpose of Nato, despite it having advanced US security and economic interests since 1949, undercut efforts to forge greater European unity that could have challenged US dominance, kept the Soviet Union/Russia at bay, and (mostly) maintained peace in Europe. Bottom line: Trump simply doesn’t buy into, or understand, basic concepts such as collective security, burden-sharing, forward defence and the balance of power. He just doesn’t get it. This myopic, isolationist view, consistent with his “America First†outlook, reflects Trump’s hostility to multilateralism in general. He scorns the UN, and has cut its US funding and boycotted its human rights council in Geneva. He repudiates World Trade Organisation rules, adopting unilateral, protectionist tariffs that spark trade wars and threaten European jobs. Trump tore up the Paris global climate change treaty, pulled out of the UN-endorsed 2015 Iran nuclear deal so beloved of Europe, and recently urged France to follow Britain in abandoning the EU – an organisation he treats with contempt. He singlehandedly wrecked last month’s G7 summit of leading democracies in Canada, petulantly rejecting its conclusions and insulting his hosts. More gallingly, Trump treats old friends worse than ostensible enemies, personalising political interactions and resorting to bullying, rudeness and open misogyny. Angela Merkel has been singled out for special abuse. At the G7 meeting, he tossed two Starburst sweets at the Germans chancellor and said: “Here, Angela, don’t say I never give you anything.†Ever since he grabbed Theresa May’s hand at their first White House meeting last year, Trump has treated the British prime minister with patronising disrespect. His crass interventions in British life, for example via tweets promoting the far-right group Britain First, and attacking London’s Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, were extraordinarily insulting. The Queen’s famous sang-froid may be tested to destruction when his visit to Britain begins on Thursday. If Trump’s crude, nationalistic policies and uncouth persona were the only problems, the European allies might just cope. But in recent months, as he has jettisoned experienced advisers and his belief in his own infallibility has grown, Trump has moved from difficult partner to potential enemy. The question grows ever more pressing: whose side is Trump’s America really on? Trump’s sycophantic courting last year of the Saudi royals and China’s authoritarian president, Xi Jinping, were early indications of his preference for dictators over democrats. His recent summit with Kim Jong-un did nothing to curb North Korea’s nuclear arms buildup. But it did reveal Trump’s almost indecent love of raw power and ostentation. This ugly trait will be on show again when he meets Vladimir Putin, Russia’s he-man president, in Helsinki on 16 July. Jon Huntsman, the US ambassador to Moscow, insists that Trump will focus on Russia’s “malign activityâ€, be it in Ukraine, in cyberspace, or in conducting chemical weapons attacks in Syria and Salisbury. Trump has also promised to quiz Putin over covert Russian meddling that benefited his 2016 election campaign, activity confirmed last week by a US senate report. But will he really do so in the private, closed-doors summit he has demanded? A more likely prospect is more crapulous fawning over an autocratic leader who exercises a mysterious hold over Trump and, most Nato members believe, threatens European security. As with Kim in Singapore, Trump’s big day out with Putin in Helsinki will be noisily declared, by him, to be an outstanding success contributing to global harmony. If, as is suggested, the two men agree to extend the New Start nuclear arms treaty, that will be a rare plus. But just as likely are unilateral, Nato-busting Trump moves to ease sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, a deal to keep Bashar al-Assad in power in Syria, the “normalisation†of Putin’s regime, and other concessions undermining the post-Salisbury western consensus. In an augury of worse to come, Trump will also seek Putin’s support over Iran. US efforts to force regime change in Tehran are gathering pace, principally by halting Iranian oil sales and trying to starve out the mullahs. Even as European diplomats struggle to sustain open lines to Tehran, the US navy is gearing up for confrontation if Iran’s revolutionary guards retaliate, as threatened, by closing the Strait of Hormuz and blocking all Gulf oil exports. Here, in a nutshell, is why Trump’s US increasingly poses a threat to Britain and Europe. In a reckless bid to impose his will on a sovereign people,he is risking a global energy crisis, a new war in the Middle East and the safety and prosperity of all America’s allies. With friends like him, who needs enemies? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/08/donald-trump-uk-visit-contempt-for-european-allies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 President Donald Trump's legal team demanded that before the President agrees to an interview, the special counsel's team must prove it has evidence of Trump committing a crime and that it needs testimony from the President to conclude its probe. Dumb and Dumber, if there is evidence that Trump committed a crime, they really don't need an interview - "Lock Him Up!" -- MELANIA TRUMP, 48, will meet with Queen Elizabeth, 92, when she visits the UK next week with her husband Donald Trump, 72. But will she be expected to curtsey? -- Trump's legal team is now in open combat with Mueller over the Russia investigation https://www.businessinsider.com.au/rudy-giuliani-reveals-demands-for-trump-testimony-in-mueller-probe-2018-7?r=US&IR=T --- Tick Tock... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 So Trump has already won with BMW...cars made in the USA....WOW...just like China does, manufacture inside our country... A tariff on BMW....WAKE UP...if made in the USA, no tariff and MORE JOBS in the USA The tariff will INCREASE JOBS in the USA *** if *** that company wants to see in the USA Understand???? Stretch your pico brain.... But no one will want a BMW from red neck town Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 >Here, in a nutshell, is why Trump’s US increasingly poses a threat to Britain and Europe. In a reckless bid to impose his will on a sovereign people,he is >risking a global energy crisis, a new war in the Middle East and the safety and prosperity of all America’s allies. With friends like him, who needs >enemies? Since President Trump is demanding that EU pay their share and stop the tariffs on US products...the USA is an enemy? The USA needs no biased "friends" that impose tariffs on US products! Too difficult for pico brain Coss to understand!! No need to comment on the BS Mueller investigation...keep drinking the kool aid...keep believing the BS, false news.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 Jeez you're on form today, there's nearly a coherent sentence in that lot.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 Whose side is Trump’s America on? The answer is becoming more and more obvious. - Simon Tisdall Who is Simon Tisdall and why is America on his side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 Coss is off his meds.... Again!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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