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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The de minimis exception probably should go away, Trump or no. The only argument I can really see for keeping it would be that getting rid of it adds to transaction cost, but aside from that, it just doesn't make sense to impose tariffs on people importing in bulk but exclude people importing small quantities.

If


and I don't know if this is actually the case for this guy


your business model fundamentally depending on leveraging being exempt from paying tariffs when a number of competitors had to pay them...I mean, you were on pretty dangerously thin ice to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Without De minimis you would need a customs structure say, a hundred times larger, or more, I dont have the figures, but it'd be ridiculous.

Also, it would make people buy from the big importers, who would have the capacity to process many shipping containers in one go, and these would have it easier to impose the prices they want, since consumers woulnd be able to source from overseas. De minimis makes a lot of sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just from your description, isn't the point of the de minimis exception to support small businesses and help them compete against larger companies that can bulk import?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's exactly the reason it exists, because you need to start somewhere and eliminating cost can help drive business growth.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I've no more fucks to give

My fucks have runneth dry.

I tried to go fuck shopping

but there's no more fucks to buy.

I've no more fucks to give

my fuck rations are depleted.

I rallied my fuck army

but it's been fucking defeated.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I’m not owned enough. He needs to lose it all and then some.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Haha. FAFO, ass hat. I feel bad for small businesses, except when their leaders vote for tRump to ‘own the libs’ get wrecked.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

"I'm going to vote to ravage my country out of spite for a group I don't understand"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I am just too naive. Whenever I see something like this I just think how they got slapped back to reality and are now at least going to realize what they supported.
And then they double down.
And I don't even know if they still truly believe in their shit or just do everything in their power as to not admit to being wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Shoe business? Does he mean drop shipping business?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I guess the other shoe just dropped.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. I also imagined a shoemaker at first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Voted himself out of business. Not even the world’s smallest violin could make as pathetic a song as this dude deserves.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

B... B... B... But trump was supposed to only destroy the people I was told to HATE, not me!!!!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I like how in the second post he's whining about the big, bad government like it's some abstract evil without naming trump. These tariffs are 100% his baby.

Like even when Trump is pooping directly into his mouth he can't badmouth him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Right. It’s not even clear that Trump has the authority, but republicans are too spineless to challenge him on tariffs.

BIG GUBMENT BAD!

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nobody is "transing" the kids. These people are beyond all reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

if telling kids their identity is valid means "transing them" then fucking write me up officer

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is it possible to have negative sympathy?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. It’s called antipathy.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, its called Schadenfreude: pleasure derived from someone else's misfortune.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I don't even feel mad about it, just sad and confused. How can anyone be past adolescence and remain this stupid and petty? How have you managed to live this long with what's very obviously some major cognitive impairment? Could we even sit down and talk like people are supposed to or are you more beast than person? :/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It should have clicked for everyone with Amazin wanting to place a tariff on their receipts. But Jeff Bezos is a pussy ass and people don't pay attention.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He's really owning the libs now. Sure showed us. Boy howdy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The Japanese have a word for this: kamikaze

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I hope he owned the libs, because he doesn't own a shoe business any more.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Why would Joe Biden do this to her???!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It appears we where libs all along.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, it's almost like Donald isn't the class traitor here. Weird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

well he was always in the robber-baron-class…

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

You voted to self-own, just too blinded by mindless hate to face reality

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Diabeetus epidemic goes through leopard population! More at 11.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

get owned, con

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago

Because they don’t give a shit about you Austin, get a fucking clue