Lol, that is exactly what I've been doing for months now. Why pay extra for a device which has a few final assembly steps in the US, when i can just source the components directly from China and build it in house?
Switching up key suppliers to avoid paying taxes to the trump regime is a hard sell with the suits upstairs, but when the Americans start slapping additional taxes onto themselves and driving up their prices, they are handing me a divestment opportunity on a silver platter.
"Metal" is a bit of a stretch. I'd always put them in the "Christian hard rock" genre myself
Look again at why these people no longer have work available to them.
If advancements in technology mean that a machine can do the job more efficiently than a human, then the value of that labour still exists, we just need to legislate a redistribution of it now that human employment is no longer doing it directly.
Once we update our tax codes to ensure that the wealth of automation is shared equitably, the question then becomes "what do you want to do with your free time?"
Anyone got a video of the rest of this set? Searching for it just brings up page after page of genocide apologists getting upset over the warmup.
Counter-proposal: All law enforcement measures and punishments must be assessed and approved by an independent board of psychologists.
We're not talking about fraud, tax evasion, or burglary where people sit down and plan a crime, making a cost-benefit analysis, and saying "you know what, good idea, but the cross product of likelihood that we get caught and penalty if we do is too high, I'm gonna sit this one out".
How about you take the extra 180K per person that you're proposing we flush down the prison system, and direct it into better mental health services, and improved welfare systems, which will actually reduce the instances of such spur-of-the-moment crimes.
I would solve this problem in the opposite way. Install some much lower barriers(eg 2.5m) which make it painfully apparent that you aren't going to get anything other than a car under it.
A truck driver isn't going to keep driving if the barrier is clearly at face height.
You honestly believe that there is a peacefull path left at this point? The system is rigged by design, and you are not going to restore democracy in the courtroom.
Quit playing Martin and start playing Malcolm. Pick up a gun and kill your fascist leaders before they kill all of us.
You mean the table they were already at when your allies bombed them?
The table they returned to after the US unilaterally reneged on the previous deal that had been negoiated?
How exactly does a country getting attacked by two others "make peace"? They were fucking at peace until you attacked them!
Now would be the time for you Americans to get your sacred guns out and eliminate your tyrannical goverment. Please act quickly before the fascist cunts get us all killed.
Fuck this noise.
Outsourcing to private providers should be a short-term stopgap to allow for the necessary investment in public infrastructure. Why would any sensible person commit to a scheme where we utilise a more expensive service as a long term solution?
It's not just counter-tariffs. There are very few American companies with a completely internal supply chain. Every tariff US companies pay on their parts, materials, and outsourced labour inflate the price they then need to charge onwards, making US products themselves more expensive.