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Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 6:01 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 6:01 am

What "problem" does it promise to make "go away"?

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 5:16 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 5:16 am

Has FOX told you?

It makes no sense, right?

C'mon, Idiots....find the courage to admit it...

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 7:59 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 7:59 am

MR-7 » 18 Aug 2025, 7:58 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 7:58 am

You act like you need some kind of proof on my reply.

Yes...that's the point of the thread.


 

 

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 7:50 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 7:50 am

I'm reading this, and thinking

"F'n A is this stupid. I need to send it to PG"....

and then I realize what a classic example of Credulity it is.

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 7:59 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 7:59 am

Yes...that's the point of the thread.

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 8:11 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 8:11 am

7 Idiot Media enthusiast have chimed in, but not one has offered the Idiot Media talking points justifying a 50% tariff on a country with which we enjoy a trade SURPLUS.

"Why do you show us such withering disdain, Blackvegetable?"

DeezerShoove » 18 Aug 2025, 5:55 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 5:55 am

Seems fair. I drink a premium coffee at home. Costs about 17 cents a cup.

If that goes up and some other problems go away, I'm good...

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 5:16 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 5:16 am

Has FOX told you?

It makes no sense, right?

C'mon, Idiots....find the courage to admit it...

Blackvegatble's hypcorisy summed up in one post: [/size]
Blackvegetable » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑7 minutes ago
Very simple questions...

From which you are running...

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 5:16 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 5:16 am

Has FOX told you?

It makes no sense, right?

C'mon, Idiots....find the courage to admit it...

murdock » 18 Aug 2025, 9:21 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 9:21 am

**** you ya lying child molester. You must not have a job, do you ***? All you do is spew hate. Please God take this *** soon.

Fuelman » 18 Aug 2025, 8:53 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 8:53 am

For all I know Melania refused to get a Brazilian Wax so Trump is making someone pay.

JuCo 5 percenter...72 “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” ~ LAVRENTIY BERIA "Try to get past your passionate ignorance and learn to accept what actually happened." ~ brown's unheeded words of wisdom If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with? "Libruls are often fascists on vacation..."

ROG62 » 18 Aug 2025, 9:35 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 9:35 am

Fuelman » 18 Aug 2025, 9:53 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 9:53 am

The part I do get is not living under Kamala's proposed tax plans. Talk about **** up!

Trump should raise the Brazil coffee tariff to 100%, just to piss you off. (Even further)

JuCo 5 percenter...72 “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” ~ LAVRENTIY BERIA "Try to get past your passionate ignorance and learn to accept what actually happened." ~ brown's unheeded words of wisdom If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with? "Libruls are often fascists on vacation..."

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 9:43 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 9:43 am

Which "problems"?

Too many Americans working?

JuCo 5 percenter...72 “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” ~ LAVRENTIY BERIA "Try to get past your passionate ignorance and learn to accept what actually happened." ~ brown's unheeded words of wisdom If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with? "Libruls are often fascists on vacation..."

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 10:48 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 10:48 am

Fuelman » 18 Aug 2025, 10:27 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 10:27 am

CNN — Vice President Kamala Harris will push to increase the corporate tax rate to 28% from the current 21%, her campaign said Monday, the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 

There's not much to describe here.

Krugman must be having an epic meltdown!

Interesting that you had to go to media you deride for the details of that at which your favored sources only hinted.

 

*Huey » 18 Aug 2025, 1:31 pm » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 1:31 pm

No, it shows the validity of it when your favorite source says it.

Blackvegatble's hypcorisy summed up in one post: [/size]
Blackvegetable » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑7 minutes ago
Very simple questions...

From which you are running...

Fuelman » 18 Aug 2025, 8:20 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 8:20 am

Tariffs are an excellent tool for behavior modification as Brazil is finding out.

 

Fuelman » 18 Aug 2025, 8:25 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 8:25 am

FYI:

Donald Trump's administration imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian coffee imports to the US primarily as a form of political pressure rather than for purely economic reasons.
Here's why:
Support for Jair Bolsonaro: Trump has repeatedly voiced his support for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing ally who is currently on trial in Brazil facing charges related to plotting a coup after the 2022 election results and refusing to leave office quietly. Trump has characterized the case against Bolsonaro as a "witch hunt".
Disapproval of Brazilian Supreme Court: Trump has also criticized the actions of the Brazilian Supreme Court, particularly Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is overseeing the case against Bolsonaro and has taken steps to curb online speech. Trump views these actions as undermining free elections and freedom of speech.
Leverage in other areas: While Trump has historically cited trade deficits as a justification for tariffs, the US actually has a trade surplus with Brazil. Therefore, the coffee tariffs, among others, appear to be a tactic to exert influence on Brazil's internal political affairs and potentially to achieve other goals, such as limiting the influence of BRICS countries.
In essence, the tariffs on Brazilian coffee, and other Brazilian products, were implemented by the Trump administration as a means of expressing strong disapproval of the Brazilian government's actions against Bolsonaro and to pressure them to alter their stance on the matter.

 

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 1:50 pm » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 1:50 pm

Natch, Zeet...

But the question is WHY....

Blackvegatble's hypcorisy summed up in one post: [/size]
Blackvegetable » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑7 minutes ago
Very simple questions...

From which you are running...

Blackvegetable » 18 Aug 2025, 1:50 pm » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 1:50 pm

Zeets2 » 18 Aug 2025, 11:39 am » wrote: ↑

18 Aug 2025, 11:39 am

If it causes a hardship to some people, the solution is simple.  Quit buying your Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal Macchiato Frappe like you gay boys all love and buy a can of coffee to brew it for yourself!  A 3 lb. can of Costco's Kirkland Premium is still under $20 (which is excellent), and that breaks out to around 40 cents a cup.  So those that aren't happy with the price increase can instead make the sane choice and SAVE $4.60 cents a cup rather than pay any increase.
Or do you think people have no other options but to pay $5+ for a cup of coffee outside of their home? 
Don't assume that everyone else is as ignorant as you and can't (or won't) change their habits if and when the need arises. 

That's the problem with all you Trump-hating liberals.  You look at just one possible outcome that will cost Americans more, and in your idiocy and blind, Trump hatred, you don't consider how people will always make adjustments to compensate for it, just like they do if the price of beef goes up, people switch to chicken or pork.  And of course, once people cut down how much they drink because of the higher price, Brazil, and any other coffee-producing countries will slowly reduce that price based on the lower demand, since the supply remains unchanged.  From there, let's see how Brazil copes with the recession that economists all say is imminent for them this year.  Think the 50% tariff they've now been hit with won't crush their economy?  And how do you think Brazil's coffee exports will be affected in comparison to coffee exports from Colombia, which are only paying a 10% Trump tariff?  Think Brazil can find another country to make up for the amount of coffee that they lose in sales to the US?

Or can't you ignorant liberals even understand that basic economic reality of the laws of supply and demand?

Natch, Zeet...

But the question is WHY....