• marv99@feddit.org
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      US citizens pay the tariffs and their tax money compensates companies after next court ruling tariffs illegal.
      So no worries, none of your tax-robbing billionairs will be harmed.

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    I’d imagine this has more to do with European automakers starting to go hard into Electric cars and those cars being significantly better than ‘Teslers’

    BYD, etc are still tariffed to be moon in USA, so European is the next best thing.

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    Why don’t they just stick him in some back room with a stack of fake trade deal documents to sign?

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      Why? They produce in the US, they won’t have to pay tariffs AFAIK

      Not sure who this will even affect. Most foreign manufacturers selling in the US build those cars in the US.

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        Doesn’t these tariffs include also car pieces / materials imported to the US before being used / integrated into the car?

        Car being composed from thousands of equipments manufactured outside the US, i can’t see how they can totally avoid US tariffs.

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              Tesla’s materials also get more expensive if everyone else’s does though. That’s why I’m saying it’s not actually an advantage for American manufacturers even if Trump wants it to be. They pay the tariffs on materials same as everyone else and the Europeans, Japanese and Koreans build their cars in the US too.

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          China won’t let them compete with domestics for long. NA continues to be among the two most important markets for European and American manufacturers.

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    I’m pretty sure he has dementia & thus nothing he has done is legal or standing (by law). I’m not a doctor, but I cannot allow his decisions to be declared sane.

    Aside from it all being against everything a president is allowed to/ supposed to do, it is also very wet-brained.

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    Didn’t the tacobell “supreme” court just say the tariffs were illegal? What is the fat pedophile even talking about?

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      Problem is, the supreme court also said they’re the only court who can stop him at a national level.

      So… Every time he breaks the rules, it has to go all the way to the SC to get overturned. Unless congress does LITERALLY ANYTHING.

      Extraordinarily inefficient… On purpose.

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        Because they took Johnson down to Mara lago and said we know you like to eat ass and suck dicks. We’ll tell the world unless you get congress republicans to do nothing.