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15% Tariff Hitting AirPods, Apple Watch, HomePod and More in the U.S. This Sunday
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Tariffs can't be total reason for a bike increasing in price by over 100%!
You know, I really couldn't care less about how China treats their workers. They can do anything they want. They are a communist dictatorship, and we have no grounds to reason with them or try to make their society more equitable. We should concentrate on creating an environment here that promotes better treatment of our own workers.
Lol those companies are being stolen from by China. And forever will be until someone tells them to stop.
Do you really think Trump’s trade war is going to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.? Statistically the opposite is happening. They are still bleeding away. Now we get a recession caused by a trade war, and no increase in manufacturing jobs. Lose-lose.
Look at our farmers, we had to give them billions because of all this crap, China told the US to keep our soybeans, they bought them from another county. There is a trade imbalance because we need them more then they need us. That is how this works, and under the current administration, we just keep shooting ourselves in the foot. And guess what we as the taxpayers get to pay the bill.
You are welcome.
Life with Hillary - hmmmm think about it. She'd give us away to the highest bidder.
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I doubt it.
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China stealing intellectual property, as well.
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FISA report wasn't out, yet. Dems were on the offensive. Republicans are on the offensive, and in the driver's seat, now. It will be a blood bath when it all gets revealed before the 2020 election cycle.
I think the biggest problem is the forced transfer of American technology to Chinese companies. US companies that produce in China need to transfer intellectual property and technology to the Chinese company, that was the start to this whole debacle. In the end, Apple would need to leave China because of this i would think.
https://prospect.org/article/coerced-tech-transfer-heart-china-problem
Oh I know I’ve seen them. They’re death traps. Some of them aren’t even assembled correctly which seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
I ride off road and road bikes and in both categories $1k is the reasonable entry for decent bikes. Used is a great deal if you can find the right bike.
I don't think the tariffs are ever going away, so get used to them. The govt needs the revenue and it's easier than doing a full blown VAT. The 25% pickup truck retaliatory tariff of 1962 hasn't gone away either.
Not being able to understand the position or plight of others and just how many of them there are is precisely what gets countries into trade wars and makes criminals/game show hosts/social media experts suddenly electable.
But I thought Dems want more taxes? Or perhaps only when they aren't the ones being taxed.
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Yeah, record low unemployment and increased wages is a total failure. Hmmm.
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The world doesn't need physical things nearly as much as we'd like to believe. The U.S. is responsible for the biggest expert in the world which is culture. Our software/entertainment industries are 10x larger than anything we import. As soon as we understand that, we can bring it to the table and use that to negotiate a real position, not this tariff joke.
Apple complains that the tariff puts them at a disadvantage when compared to Samsung?
Big deal, Apple has been given every opportunity to move production out of China before the tariffs hit, but has chosen not to, sorry, but they are going have to live with the consequences.
Big deal, Apple has been given every opportunity to move production out of China before the tariffs hit, but has chosen not to, sorry, but they are going have to live with the consequences.
That's an excuse for everything now. I want a raise? Sorry, because of tariffs. My rent raised $600 month. Sorry, because of tariffs. LOL.
Are you kidding me? There are many companies out there producing clothes in the USA and still making money. You were speaking of ties? Just one example for you so you don’t have to buy Trumps ties in the future.
https://www.olemasonjar.com/collections/ties
The only thing he has ever been competitive in is prime ********ting people. Like a Bernie Madoff or some other crook. Trump could have easily let somebody produce his maga hats in the US, charge an obscene amount and make a fortune.
Poor leadership in the past let them take advantage of us...
This is so funny to watch, as I don't intend to buy any more Apple product, haven't purchased anything from them in a few years.
First, Tim Apple is taking advantage of unprivileged labor who work long hours for little pay. At least now they have fences and nets so they don't kill themselves anymore by jumping out the window.
Oh, forgot, in order for China to manufacture they must control all the trade secrets and patents. There's that.
Next, they pollute their environment with all this manufacturing and poor public infrastructure. Take some time to look for YouTube videos where the government transit workers are packing the trains full of people in China. It's amazing this sort of thing is happening on this planet.
Next, they put all that stuff on boats and planes that are killing our oceans (boats exhaust into the water, in case you didn't know). Who knows what else those boats leech into the water. Planes pollute the sky.
Finally, Tim Apple and all his bean counters figure the maximum price they can charge. And they do.
So now, we're trying to bring manufacturing back here with robots, cleanly.
And we're raising money for the government. Everyone was complaining about the deficit, now's your chance to put your money where your mouth is. And don't forget, you can also donate to the US Treasury, there's a web site set up for just that. Maybe Tim Apple, Bill Microsoft, Oprah, Bernie and Warren Buffet will actually do that instead of hiring their army of tax accountants to get them to pay the minimum they need to while the rest of us sheep do what we do.
First, Tim Apple is taking advantage of unprivileged labor who work long hours for little pay. At least now they have fences and nets so they don't kill themselves anymore by jumping out the window.
Oh, forgot, in order for China to manufacture they must control all the trade secrets and patents. There's that.
Next, they pollute their environment with all this manufacturing and poor public infrastructure. Take some time to look for YouTube videos where the government transit workers are packing the trains full of people in China. It's amazing this sort of thing is happening on this planet.
Next, they put all that stuff on boats and planes that are killing our oceans (boats exhaust into the water, in case you didn't know). Who knows what else those boats leech into the water. Planes pollute the sky.
Finally, Tim Apple and all his bean counters figure the maximum price they can charge. And they do.
So now, we're trying to bring manufacturing back here with robots, cleanly.
And we're raising money for the government. Everyone was complaining about the deficit, now's your chance to put your money where your mouth is. And don't forget, you can also donate to the US Treasury, there's a web site set up for just that. Maybe Tim Apple, Bill Microsoft, Oprah, Bernie and Warren Buffet will actually do that instead of hiring their army of tax accountants to get them to pay the minimum they need to while the rest of us sheep do what we do.
I think you are having a hard time separating Trump the businessman from Trump the visionary. Trump has had this vision of the US being taken advantage of even in the 1980s. There's a famous Trump interview with Larry King done in 1987, where he was saying EXACTLY the same things as he was saying during his election campaign in 2015-2016. Trump has been consistent in his views, and regardless of your opinion of Trump, he has been implementing every single promise he made during his campaign. In fact, he is the only President in my memory that has been meticulously implementing every single promise he made during his campaign.
Trump has been against outsourcing manufacturing by US businesses back in the 1980s. He was raising concerns about the US trade deficit and unfair trade back in the 1980s. Larry King even asked him in that interview if he had given a thought to running for President, and Trump said he was hoping that there would be a politician with similar views who runs for President. He had no intentions back then to run for President even though he had a very solid ideological platform to run on that was quite different from both the Democrat and the Republican political platforms.
However, Trump the businessman had to play by the same rules as his competition was playing in order to be able to compete and survive. So, the fact that he had his products manufactured in China doesn't discount the fact that he was wishing no one could outsource manufacturing to China. When you compete, you sometimes have to play by the rules you don't necessarily like. He couldn't change the rules when he was a businessman, but he decided to become a politician in order to change the rules that he has hated all along. That's exactly what he is doing now; he is changing the rules that he has always considered unfair to the US.
I don't endorse Trump's behavior, but I support his trade war with China 100%.
To be honest I stopped reading when you called Trump a visionary. The only vision the man has is to make himself larger than life. It has nothing to do with him being a business man or a politician. It is a character flaw.
Except, in this case, the draft-dodged clown stole the White House like Shrub did in year 2000.
You are comparing Bernie's wealth to that of Warren Buffet?
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Of course he is a visionary. He is much more of a visionary than Tim Cook could ever be.
It's an attribute of a visionary to formulate a political platform that goes pretty much against the mainstream parties and opinions, then run on that political platform without any prior experience and win Presidency against all odds and contrary to all the pundits. If you think Trump is a dummy, than you don't understand how the real world works. He may be a con man, but he is no dummy. He also has uncanny intuition to make right decisions in the fields that he knows very little about. All of these qualities are clearly those of a visionary. Tim Cook has none of those qualities.
Trump was able to find top-notch economists who subscribed to his own vision of how the US should proceed in its trade policies vis-à-vis other countries. The trade deals that Trump is renegotiating are based on his own vision, which he voiced publicly on Larry King Live over 30 years ago. You should watch that interview to understand that what's happening today is Trump's vision from 30 plus years ago. He also sounds much more intelligent and coherent in that interview than he does nowadays.
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Good thing I had no plan to buy any of those products.
In the end, when this is over, we will have cheaper imports from China.
Have some vision and patience...
In the end, when this is over, we will have cheaper imports from China.
Have some vision and patience...