Riseupfromtherubble

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I am 100 or less

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zero chance unless you are and always have been a hermit

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Here’s what happened in many cases

Company A receives goods from overseas and absorbs the tariffs on whole or part.

Company B receives goods from overseas and passes tariffs onto the consumer.

The difference in the companies is that company A is large national company - (think Walmart)
Company B is small mom and pop - (think local hardware store or other retailer)

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No, that's not how it's working from my experience. Those company A's are tacking on a tarriff surcharge on items to the end user, but their prices were low anyway due to volume. In the more niche markets, they can get by with the surcharge because everyone else in the industry is passing it along too. These publicly traded companies aren't going to just erode their margins over tarriffs, get real.

Now, who is getting screwed here besides the end user:

Well it's company B. They can't pass on the tarrifs in many cases because it will price them out of the market, they aren't getting the volume discount. A good friend of mine has a family business that manufacturers OEM vehicle parts. They have 1 factory in the US and 1 factory in China. So it's not a mom and pop hardware store, but it's not a megacorporation either. They are getting raped on tarrifs- because their contracts with the major manufacturers didn't stipulate terms on when they had to be paid. They submit the information quarterly and then AP at the mega corps disputes half of them, so they end up floating the cost for 8-16 months in some cases. That wrecks cash flow.

I think the tarriffs help in the long run, but the small business and the end user are getting screwed in the meantime. I also don't think they working in the spirit of "bringing manufacturing jobs back to americans" either. These plants that importing from china and manufacturing in the states have had to hire low wage workers to cut costs. Guess who those are, immigrants

Seaborn give me AJ Mccarron vibes

Did a Boston butt on the BGE yesterday. So BBQ baked potato today

Correct. So me, a homeowner, would see about 2500 a year eliminated from my tax bill, or a little over $200 per month that’s going into escrow to cover the estimated amount of said tax bill.

Whether the money is going to escrow each month as part of your mortgage or you pay your own at the end of the year, it’s a needle mover for the middle class

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The Free State of Florida stays winning.

Hopefully the Senate doesn't frick it up

I can't fathom how narrow minded one has to be to believe that earth is home to the only life forms in an infinite and expanding universe.

I don't need a politician to confirm we aren't alone in this universe. In that same breath, from a mathematical standpoint the odds of us being the most intelligent life forms in the universe are equally astronomical. I don't think we fall on the primitive end of the scale, but I'd certainly wager there's far more technologically advanced civilizations out there in the cosmos

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There is so much we don't know about the ocean it is scary.

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It's about 7 miles deep at the mariana trench.

For some perspective, the way a crow flies that's about the distance between Tiger Stadium and Southern University

fricking bums. 3 ks in an inning on a kid throwing absolute 85 mph meatballs

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Thanks for proving my point better than I ever could have. Pure delusion and completely dishonest. Hurr durr I didn't know Liverpool had a great history

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Why the frick would someone just starting to watch the sport do a deep dive into a clubs history? Your fragile mind just can't comprehend that a club like Liverpool exudes passion and energy even when they're sitting mid table. That's an organic trait, you can't buy it with Russian mob money. Maybe in a sense you're right, the tradition and history was palpable through the television. There wasn't a need to do a deep dive, because it was evident that here's a club with real character, and that doesn't happen overnight.

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Thank God Michael Essien didn't play for Liverpool in 2006 lest I be tied to suc a cesspool of a city/club.

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Yea, London is peak western civilization. There's more Pakis in London than Abbottabad. Their Sunni Muslim mayor is presiding over a cultural beacon that is just a shining light to the rest of the free world.

Who is delusional again?

still time to delete that and repent