Phil_in_here @ Phil_in_here @lemmy.ca

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When you import something from another country, it needs to go through things like customs, etc. You have to fill out all the paperwork about what it is and where it's going (if you're using/selling it in the US or just middlemanning it somewhere else).

Part of that paperwork includes tariffs, a tax on the good you are importing. So, the importer has to pay the government that money in order for the product to legally come in to the country. The importer pays that cost, so the local purchaser pays that cost, so the consumer pays that cost. And each one of those (and likely many other) steps probably will add on a little extra for the trouble.

The hope is that encourages local production; even if it costs more to produce locally, when you factor in the cost of the tariffs to import, it might make sense to invest the cost to avoid the tariffs.

The troubles are:

1. you can't often make a fully operational supply chain domestically in 4 years
2. the US doesn't have some of those raw resources, like minerals or regional food sources
3. good or bad, places like China can pay professional factory workers way less than minimum US wage, which, in case this is news to anyone, is already far below a livable wage

Let's not forget that the Republicans are an army of sycophants with zero capacity to think or act for themselves. Trump is a narcissistic pawn and absolute loser, but even at the highest level of power he's only a problem because the Republican Party are either spineless cowards or deranged cultists.

Ah, the American healthcare system!

I think the sentiment of "just let PP take office and then we can help you fuck us over" really irked people for some reason.

"The beer's getting stronger" says local man

We need to drop the American idea of "the opposition". It's incredibly fucked up to think that about half the government is there simply to stop the other half.

3 "major" parties is the bare minimum to keep is out of what's happening down there. The Left and Right. The Good and the Bad. Us versus the Enemy.

We need 7 or 8 major parties with at least 5% of the seats whose goals are to earn enough seats to influence Canadian policy on behalf of Canadians, not 2 major parties whose goal is to control the government. That goal always leaves Canada second (or third, when corporate interest buys it's way in).

Minority governments are always better for democracy

Classic uplifting news! Community member(s) do something the fucking government should be doing.

It works for the American prison industry!

About time for the covid hoarders to resupply!

I don't like the idea of polyamory. It feels wrong to me. But when it's consenting adults (or parties of mutual age in teens), there's no argument against it.

That's a big problem with people: not being able to reconcile their feelings with rationality. My feelings are irrelevant to how other people conduct their lives when it doesn't affect anyone else. I think that's a key component in having an open mind: to challenge your own feelings, to say, "I don't like it, and that feeling is objectively wrong. I need to actively check my behavior so I don't impose that feeling on others."

It's fine to have those feelings and good to acknowledge them, but you still have to think it all the way through.

The Conservatives need to step up and oust her yesterday.

Seriously, they want to win so hard they're willing to sell our country out, but they refuse to acknowledge that denouncing this would show actual leadership and win back a bunch of the shift toward the Liberals.

I mean, in the grand scheme it's better for Canada for the Conservatives to fuck up and lose, but it's still not clear enough that will happen. Somehow, there's still enough Canadians who support these fuckups.

"Hey, at least He didn't give you bone cancer as a child! Think of how lucky you are that's not His plan, you ungrateful cunt. Does that help your depression?"

Like a Little Caesars Hot n' Ready

On the other hand, driving around with an advertisement saying, "Elon is crazy and this was a bad investment" isn't the worst thing in the world.

That's just the natural aging process. Plumbing just gets saggy and wrinkly. Ask any man over 50.

Can anyone explain what risk or labour is involved in an NSF incident and how that's even worth $10?

Really? I tend to see this most often when someone says dumb shit they know is indefensible so they can justify not replying

Alls I know is you can't fuck with the Transportation Budget.

YOU'LL REGRET THIS!!!!

That's some pleasant and uplifting news :)