philipg1.bsky.social
Retired, living in Sussex
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So how does the US Treasury manage without the anticipated funding stream from these tariffs?
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I assume that the Secretary of Defense will sign off the plane as suitable for the President.
It would be interesting to see the differences between this 747-800 and the two Boeing have spent years converting for task.
I do assume that this one has a make upstudio and a bar.
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As Alina is an Acting US Attorney, I assume that she, sadly, is just continuing to be a thespian...
The Best People...
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If you stockpile before the tariffs come in, you will need to sell those goods to pay the tariffs on the next ones, so a slow down in supply chains. Does this mean storage problems at ports?
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Is there a view of what, if any, car is 100% made in the USA?
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I do feel sorry for the customs agents, one day demanding lots of money from each truck, the next not, they must be a bit dazed and confused, as we all are.
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As I see it Trump is driving America into a recession, there was a lot of investment in the defence manufacturing infrastructure to feed the Ukrainians, now this is turned off, people laid off and the tariffs will increase domestic prices and reduce income to farmers.
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How much does the military rely on NOAA forecasts?
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What amuses me that implicitly Trump is saying that his first term as President Making America Great Again, was a failure, as now it transpires radical surgery is required. So what was the 2020 election campaign all about?
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What concerns me is the definition of boots on the ground. Are there plans to just send ground troops, who are used to working with air assets without them? If we deploy whatever we can as a fully integrated battle group, that is then attacked by Russian forces where is article 5?
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Good interview, I might of asked where she thought that the workforce to build the new Nirvana was coming from, the USA? Together with who was going to pay for this development on 'US' soil?
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I do wonder how many of the acceptors were near retirement.
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Do these tariffs apply to gold and silver etc imports through Mexico or Canada?
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Interesting quote ' legitimate opposition ' quite a change of stance.
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As I understand it, if you accept a pardon, you have implicitly pleaded guilty to a crime.
So adding flames to any fire about your behaviour, that no doubt would be fanned on social media.
A difficult and probably expensive balancing act.
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As I understand it that is 220 before any representatives gain jobs on the new Trump administration, without the Matt Gaetz seat, having been won, now being empty.
Glad I am not a whip there.
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I would have thought that there was an inverse link between costs in a company and taxable profit.
I have not done the exercise but raising £20bn in employer's NI implicitly reduces profits by £20bn, however, how much does it reduce main stream Corporation Tax?
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I just noticed that only some 100,000 acres of farmland a year come onto the open market, this setting the price, there are some 40m acres of farmland in the UK.
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If there is no change in the proposed tax, it would seem to me that the demand for farmland as a tax shelter reduces, then in an efficient market the price per acre reduces. Taking many farms out of tax and making tax losses, for some, on disposal.
Price of land up fivefold in twenty years?
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There are two discussions here as I see it. The capital cost of a farm, that has increased from c£2k to £10k an acre in 20 years. Was this a function of the tax shelter attractiveness? So cost per acre could reduce. On the other hand there is the operational cost base. Different discussions?
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If the financial return is so low, it means that the cost of production is too high. Is this because there are not many farms coming to the market that can be used as tax shelters?
This of course drives the value of the farm up and into the new tax.
Stop farmland being used as a tax shelter?
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Will this tax change mean that the price of farmland reduces? I see it making investing in farmland a far less attractive tax shelter. Not the typical family farm.
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They must like cold junk food.