• Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    When Trump says piracy, I understand he’s referring to classic piracy (with little boats and all), and when he says IP Theft, I assume he’s referring to the piracy that concerns us. Good luck adding a tax to my $0 rate.

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      I believe he’s trying to say “here’s other examples of CHEATING other countries do to us that are unrelated to tariffs”. Who knows.

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        I think he’s saying things other than tariffs that affect how many dollars the US could make selling shit to your country.

        Thing is, the list doesn’t make sense. Yeah most countries have VAT. 1) So does the US, it’s called sales tax. 2) I pay VAT equally on American, Estonian or German goods. What’s the problem?

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          The problem is that he is a fascist and fascists always need an external enemy to blame.

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        I mean wouldn’t it just be “ways to cheat tarrifs”

        Like I guess they don’t want to promote that but they could just say “ways to cheat tarrifs we will punish” to try to sound hard.

        But this phrase just makes no sense.

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      As opposed to cheating as an insider trader who manipulates markets with yo-yo tariffs.

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        Nobody knows what it is, folks. People are asking, “What is it?”—nobody knows. Experts, politicians, the fake news—nobody has a clue. Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing. Could be the biggest thing ever, could be nothing at all. Nobody knows, believe me. Total mystery.

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      Don’t know but it’s extremely obvious that some of his posts are ghost-written (just like his book) and this is one of them.

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    How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.

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      I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.

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    You heard him folks, shine up your Somali and take to the seas, this man wants to see if we can cost him more money as traditionalists.

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    So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.

    I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now

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      I can’t imagine their software and bookkeeping would be significantly different from any other international logistics company?

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        Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.

        It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.

        Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!

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        China also subsidises a lot of things. The even subsidise things produced for export, which could be considered dumping.

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        Or Canada with the dairy subsidies.

        Also it’s not like the US has subsidised corn for decades or anything like that.

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          Controlled production is not the same thing as a subsidy. Canada controls supply. There is a quota system. No US dairy supplier ever uses their quota, so don’t get dinged with tariffs.

          It is literally nothing.

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    my concern over IP Theft goes from the ground up, can’t help it. I’ll worry about what corps think they’re missing out on right after I’ve acknowledged each and every person who has ever written anything on the internet, or shared an original work in any way. the damage done by tech bros pillaging the collective imagination is way higher than $1T

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    So now he’s angry that we’ve fucked up our agricultural exports badly enough that the rest of the world doesn’t think our trash goods are food grade?

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    idk if i want agent orange to get a stroke because on one hand might just die but on the other hand the nonsense he speaks could just get more powerful

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    When they say ‘piracy’ does he think they are referring to Captain Jack Sparrow?