so consumers will end up paying more because that orange đź’© is a pure idiot
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Kuo: Apple Better Off Taking 25% Tariff Hit Than Move iPhone Production to US
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Yes I have. Many . It can suck, but what gives us the divine right to think it’s just for other people. The whole world can’t work in marketing, sales or finance !
Only in cases where national security or economic emergencies can the president institute a tariff. In any other situation it is Congress.
Unfortunately, the current administration doesn't believe in laws or the Constitution. Or sanity.
I wish he would just focus on which club to pull from 190 yards out.
That's a nonsensical analogy. Do you actually have anything your supermarket wants to buy? Try a little harder to make sense next time.
Apple will just wait out the 4 years and will either pay the tariffs or pass it on to the consumers. Even if they tried to move manufacturing it will take over 4 years anyway.
It’s been a few years since I saw comparative quotes. But labour rates in Texas used to be appx 10x of those in China for server assembly. Obviously I don’t know the fraction of the product cost made up by labour on an iPhone, but even at 25%, I doubt US manufacturing would be cheaper.
Seems like the analogy was perfect since you got the point exactly. It's nonsensical to assume a trade deficit is bad without examining why it exists.
Someone change his diaper, he is giving the USA a rash.
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Precedent for this style of policy implementation was set long before Trump and the R party were voted back in control. The ineffectiveness and rank partisanship of our perpetually and narrowly divided congress, a by-product of which is never-ending gridlock, is exactly why so few important policies can be codified into law anymore. As a result, the only way a president can implement what he was elected to do is (as Barack Obama famously said) with a phone and a pen, meaning Executive Orders.
Trade imbalance at a national level is such a strange metric to choose. Say I’m a poor country selling wheat to the US, why am I expected to spend that revenue on things the US makes ?
I would be surprised if a little thought hadn’t been given to a US specific iPhone, one designed for assembly that would be especially easy to automate.
I doubt we’d see the same phone used anywhere else, but if they’re not thinking about the smartest way to build a US-domestic phone, they’re not as bright as I thought they were.
I doubt we’d see the same phone used anywhere else, but if they’re not thinking about the smartest way to build a US-domestic phone, they’re not as bright as I thought they were.
It takes decades to relocate a supply chain. China spent decades building theirs. The US doesn’t even have a factory that can machine enough screws for the iPhone, let alone everything else.
You have to stop watching Fox News!
The arguments you use can easily be countered by a five year old.
Once again, it's quite amusing how some people will toss anyone who happens to disagree with them on a particular issue into their big "basket of deplorables." You don't know what news outlets I consume any more than I know how you keep yourself informed (or don't, as the case may be). I certainly don't mind debating the merits of the article here, but if this somehow spirals into some sort of progressive v. conservative pile-on, I can certainly hold my own. Especially with the likes of anyone hurling ad-hominem attacks.
No it won't.
Also where are you going to buy all the refined minerals to build the robots and the things with after you've pissed everyone off?
You're kidding right? Companies notoriously rip off the US to benefit other countries.
You havnt been paying attention at all. Maybe try other news sources.
