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Aussie105

(7,677 posts)
5. Eat the tariffs?
Fri May 23, 2025, 08:41 PM
May 2025

Sure, why not.

I mean, those big profit companies can absorb the Trump Tariff Tax, right?
(Or fire lots of workers, lose customers from the price hikes, and go broke.)

And 25% tariff on iPhones?
Sure, buy local - just wait 20 years for the US iPhone manufacturing industry and all its supporting supply industries to crank up to producing the first one.

Trump seems obsessed with money making schemes that don't stand the test of daylight.
When Trump sees a rainbow and sends out secret service agents to find the leprechauns and confiscate their pots of gold, you know he has finally lost all reason.
That day is coming closer.

But its a great business opportunity. For the illegal importation pirate industry.
Soon drug dealers will be standing on corners - selling 'tariff free' imports of Chinese made phones instead.

Lots of examples of illegal parallel importing in human history to evade taxes, duties, tariffs.
From duty free French wines landing on windswept British coastal beaches long ago at night to untaxed tobacco.

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