American here. We spend more money in Canada in the first quarter than we did in the USA. We loved returning to Quebec again for a visit, and also spending a week in Alberta for the first time. Our president is an idiot, and he's harming my Canadian brothers and sisters. Keep buying Canadian, and I'll try to keep doing the same.
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I'm American, I needed new work boots. Got some Canada Wests. They are high quality and very comfy.
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I'm not really seeing any effects yet and our government is still at it.
So keep at it.
Don't stop until all communication stops and you just see smoke coming from our direction.
Embarrassed American here and I hope the rest of the world keeps it up, these stupid assholes only speak one language and it's money.
I fully believe half of them will delude themselves into thinking it's just part of cancel culture (woke-ism or whatever the raison d’être), and if they just keep holding on to technocrat authoritarianism just a little longer, the world will have to give in.
I've already cut ties with Walmart, and will be drastically diverting purchases away from Amazon whenever possible.
Once you get it in your mind that "yeah, I'm not supporting Nazis", it's really easy to reject anything and everything American.
And for anything that isn't made in Canada or by a Canadian company, I'm happy to support our allies from around the world, too.
Depending where you are it's honestly not hard to avoid amazon.
I've cancelled prime in January and since then, I found that every thing I needed and got there for convenience, I got from elsewhere for the same if not less and with the same kind of shipping speed.
Hell, just this week I was setting up my old vita for my son and found I needed a replacement charger. I found it from a used game store in Ontario, came to me in 2 days.
I'm ashamed of being lazy these past few years and using them so much when I could have supported local businesses instead...
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Californian here. Thank you. Keep up the heat. Those of us on the inside fighting for what's right need your help in putting as much pressure on these assholes as possible.
I think it might be time for those of us in the blue states to offer a reciprocal sales tax break to our Canadian, European, and Mexican allies to offset the tariff idiocy. If CA nixed it's sales tax for "Allied Countries", that's roughly 10% we could trim the tariff impact by. If it's reciprocal, then it could be a way to mitigate Trump's effect on our shared financial interests. I'd be more than willing to vote for this.
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That plan wouldn't be good for California's social welfare programs, though.
Maybe raising taxes on red state made goods would work better.
i actually disagree here, for a couple of different reasons. First, the sales tax is a regressive tax on the poor, and it will directly help lower income communities while positively changing their buying habits.
Second, reducing the tariff impact directly increases overall economic activity. For instance, that Canadian lumber is still going to be taxed when it's sold as a dresser made by an Washington woodworker - it just means that the woodworker isn't paying as much of a tariff to bring the raw materials into the country. This means that overall sales tax revenue goes up because its less expensive to do business.
Third, in terms of specifics (on primarily a West Coast basis) regarding potential lost revenue, California's loss could be offset by repealing Prop 13 - we have very low property taxes as a result of this Reagan era law, and bringing it more in line with real property values could bring in billions from our wealthiest (and we have a lot of wealthy landowners in CA). Washington (to my knowledge) doesn't have property tax - bringing on one could similarly offset the revenue loss. Oregon, conversely, doesn't have sales tax, so in their case it might be more an issue of funding state rebates for allied countries - for instance, a reduction on property taxes for new homes built with allied country sourced materials.
All this being said, the real solution to the government revenue program for social programs in the face of a lawless fascist federal government is for the blue states to start collecting federal income tax directly from their citizens, paying for the programs themselves, and then providing the remainder to the federal government if they've been meeting their duty under the Constitution. However, this step would be the prelude to real civil war, so it's likely a bridge too far for our current political leaders on the left.
I'm only buying European products, and even got some Canadian stuff. No US products at all. Ditched all meta, amazon, google, disney. Hope the US economy is going to take more hard hits, so people realise the Orange Toddler needs to go
I'm curious what Canadian stuff made its way to you. I think one thing that should be a more well known thing is Honey Dill Sauce. Yum!
At leastbMaple syrup. A tiny amount is made in vermont.
I'd be surprised if honey dill sauce has made it out of Manitoba yet.
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As much as I love people buying stuff from MB, honey dill is obscenely simple to make
Honey Dill Mayo
You can do equal parts honey and mayo or adjust them to your preference, it's an extremely forgiving recipe. I do usually around half the amount of honey to mayo.
I moved to Alberta and couldn't find the sauce easily and found it is so easy to make. But having some to buy for the first time you taste it isn't a bad thing.
Very true, I do encourage those who haven't tried it to buy it, i don't mind that brand but I make mine with more mayo for sure!
This is true, it's actually kind of hard to get it wrong. 😅
Maple syrup, lentils and an arc'teryx long sleeve!
Hrm, I hadn't hear of Arc'teryx before. There's a shop at the mall close to me. I'll have to check it out!
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Not OP, but one thing that is kind-of a luxury here is maple syrup, which I buy infrequently as a treat - but so far, I had always bought the cheapest (US) variant I found here in Europe. Seeing that I buy it so infrequently anyway, I will go for a more premium Canadian one for sure next time I buy some.
Be sure to buy grade B, not grade A. Grade A just means lighter in color (less flavor) than grade B.
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And ketchup chips and hawaiian pizza! OK OK I know I'm pushing my luck here :)
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Good.
Agreed. Make the assholes at the top feel it where it hurts.
BUT dont sell cheap when it crashes. Thats what they are hoping for- to scoop up the remaining assets on the cheap.