By Michael Woyton
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This post was updated at 3:32 p.m. Thursday to reflect the suspension of tariffs on Canada by the current administration.
How much is the tariff on whiplash?
As I sit here trying to write, I truly am afraid to refresh the webpage for fear that there will be another update on the state of tariffs from the administration of President Donald J. Felon.
A little more than a month ago, the grifter-in-chief imposed tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China. Then the stock market didn’t react well and he said, “Nevermind” and the tariffs for Canada and Mexico were postponed until March 4.
The president put the tariffs back on as of March 4 and the stock markets plunged again.
So any guess what is happening today?
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The White House is pausing tariffs on some, but not all, Mexican imports, as well as Canadian imports, until April 2.
Why? Well, we’re guessing that the administration needed some time to come up with a good excuse.
After speaking with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the tariffs for Mexican goods and services that are covered by the North American trade agreement — the one that the felon-in-chief signed during his first administration — will be paused until April 2, CNBC reported.
Is this going to be a monthly thing now?
The golfer-in-chief will say something, the markets will react badly, he’ll get bad TV coverage, he’ll come back and say “nevermind”? Rinse, repeat?
It’s almost as if the mayor of Mar-a-Lago 1) doesn’t know what he’s doing, 2) isn’t getting any good advice from the people around him or 3) hired really shitty people to be around him who don’t know what they are doing.
Could be combination of all three. After all, he still doesn’t realize or want to admit that tariffs on goods imported TO the United States will end up being paid by American consumers. Tariffs are not free money from other countries.
All this uncertainty is not just having an effect on only the American consumer.
“[B]usinesses have also been operating in a state of limbo, unsure of when or whether the import taxes would take hold,” NPR reported.
A business in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that embroiders sports and work uniform emblems has halted investment in factories in Texas and Georgia because of the uncertainty.
The owner, Randy Carr, told NPR that he will try to try to pass along any import tax to customers but will likely have to bear some of the cost himself.
“We have a plan to deal with it, but honestly it’s punitive to my staff and the growth of the business, because it’s just another form of a tax,” he told the news organization.
All of this adds to the chaos that we have all been feeling since the adjudicated rapist was sent back to the White House.
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Texas Rep. Al Green was censured Thursday by the House of Representatives for speaking out during the joint session of Congress about the plan to gut Medicaid.
Ten Democrats voted along with Republicans to censure Green.
Here are their names:
The phone numbers to their offices are included in the thread.
Protest seldom starts without speaking up at inconvenient times.
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friend of mine works in an oilfield near town…said the cost of a part he needs last week was $38.00 now it is $112.00……..this does not bode well for industry here.
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Wow! What part of the country?
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Oklahoma
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