Seriously, wtf is wrong with him now???

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    “You know what will fix America’s problems? Infinite new taxes on absolutely everything!”

    – Republicans, apparently

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    imposing a 50 percent tariff on “all kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, and associated products,” as well as a 30 percent tariff on upholstered furniture beginning Oct. 1st.

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      If associated products means anything that could go into making a cabinet, like fixtures or even the parts of a cabinet that might still have to be imported, then he’s making domestic expensive too, nullifying anything. It’s possible that he may end up eventually being the only person in the US who doesn’t understand the effects of a tariff. Idiot.

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    So some domestic firm with a terrible, non competitive product fellated him. Did we see a pressboard trophy to go with Apple’s glass one?

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    This abject moron will had no fixing clue how tariffs work and how to use them not like an idiot.

    IKEA is not going to give a flying fuck about this.

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    “The reason for this is the large scale ‘FLOODING’ of these products into the United States by other outside Countries,” he wrote. “It is a very unfair practice, but we must protect, for National Security and other reasons, our Manufacturing process.”