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parabyte.bsky.social • 22 days ago

Now, as for why tarriffs are being levied against the USA's best trading partner, here's your answer.
We all know the bigoted orange blob makes things up all the time. Most of the time it feels like he is just letting thoughts run out of his mouth.

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parabyte.bsky.social•22 days ago

These tariff threats feel like they have been thought out, but not necessarily for the reasons you might think.
Trump claims drugs and illegal immigrants are surging into the US from Canada and we need to tighten our border controls to stop it! This is completely false.

parabyte.bsky.social•22 days ago

Roughly 1% of all fentanyl and 1% of all illegal immigrants tobthebUS originate from Canada. Not enough to move the needle even if we eliminated this "problem" entirely. We can make changes, but it will never be enough because this is NOT a problem worth solving.

parabyte.bsky.social•22 days ago

Definitely not a problem worth breaking a trade treaty over.
No, the tariffs are meant to line the pockets of Trump and his hand-picked appointed goons.

parabyte.bsky.social•22 days ago

Tariffs go to the US government. So say you apply a 25% tariff on $1M worth of goods, then the cost to import is now $1.25M and $250k of that goes to the government.
Now take that number and know that the US imports approx $3.6B worth of Canadian goods EACH DAY.

parabyte.bsky.social•22 days ago

Do the math. Then multiply it by what they import daily from Mexico ($1.2B) @ 25% tariff, and China ($420B) @ 10% tariff.
Now you get it?

parabyte.bsky.social•22 days ago

Oh, and this agreement that Trump is breaking by arbitrarily applying tariffs to Canadian goods? Yah, he renegotiated this agreement during his first term.

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