The European Union is working on countermeasures in response to the tariffs that US president Trump has announced. Commission president Ursula von der
  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The US can fucking burn for all I care but, I do feel like implementing tariffs on US products should be carefully considered.

    Trumps economic policy is going to ruin the US economy and the quality of life for Americans. There’s no doubt about that.

    The thing is, if you implement tariffs against the US then he can blame nasty Europe and mean China for what they’re doing to the US.

    Alternatively, if you just let Americans pay the tariffs I think Trump will run out of steam pretty quick. How long can Americans stand to pay an extra 50% on all the junk they buy from China?

    Not very long I’m betting.

    • airglow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Placing tariffs on US Big Tech services would accelerate the adoption and development of free and open source software, which benefits not only Europeans, but also people in the US and the rest of the world.

    • stephan262@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      VAT is only a tax on foreign goods insofar as it is a tax on ALL goods irrespective of origin. So it’s not hypocritical as it is a very different thing.

          • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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            8 months ago

            It’s a tax on every stage of the process, nobody “switched to it”. All for the government, that didn’t contribute to the process. That doesn’t make a train stop at my mom’s home town anymore even though their country is smaller than my state but has all the tax money. Including price in price is nothing. The SIZE is the important part. I balked at 9% sales tax in my state, used to be 6%. Yours is amplified 20% times 5. Design, execution, physical build, assembly, final product. That’s crazy.

            And why ever say “we switched to VAT”. It’s just a name. Tax, VAT, Tariff. All words. You’re probably a bot anyway.