WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court.
The United States will slap taxes of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 trading partners accounting for 99% of U.S. imports, charging that they have inadequately enforced bans on goods produced by forced labor.
Never forget, while you’re paying more for everything in your life, Donald Trump still raped kids.
Seems that America is fine with raping kids.
Oh come, be fair…it was not just kids. Donarhea Drumpf also raped women.
Australian news says
The Trump administration argues the US is doing its part to combat forced labour but other countries are not, putting American companies at a competitive disadvantage.
However, many analysts say US President Donald Trump is simply trying to replace the tariffs that were invalidated by the US Supreme Court earlier this year, and the forced labour investigation is merely a pretext.
Some might argue that the American incarceration system is a form of forced labour itself.
Where is the forced labour in Australia Trump?
It literally is. Read the constitutional amendment outlawing slavery in the US. Slavery is outlawed in all cases EXCEPT as punishment for crimes committed. Penal Slavery is literally explicitly legal under the US constitution.
Slavery is outlawed in all cases EXCEPT as punishment for crimes committed.
Imo that’s quite fucked up. Then wiki says;
" The Thirteenth Amendment exempts penal labor from its prohibition of forced labor. This allows prisoners who have been convicted of crimes (not those merely awaiting trial) to be required to perform labor or else face punishment while in custody."
Basically legal slavery is still existing in the US.
Those prisoner’s labour then gets sold to fast food stores etc and the prison pockets a vast majority of the pay. If they’re safe enough to work at McDonalds then they can be released. But it’s not about that, it’s about trading human lives for corporate profits
As much as I agree with you on everything you have said a big amount of society would not agree with you assuming they understood entirety of your statement. A part of legal system is not just prevention and reformation, but punishment. It is barbaric but it stems from society as a whole. I am kind of glad that we were told that in uni (computer law for 2 credits) nobody could think of the last part. I like my uni and the people, but it was not so hard to notice it outside and sometimes with even a ridiculous amount of hypocrisy.
In my opinion being put in a cell excluded from society for an extended period is punishment enough, I know I would hate to spend 20 something hours a day looking at the same 4 walls. Also can you imagine having your employer replace you and your coworkers with prisoners because they’re cheaper, you already had a shitty job, now you don’t even have that because a literal criminal too it (ironically of no fault of their own).
If the funds for their work (being paid at least minimum wage) were being put in to a capital fund to help people who have completed their sentence re enter society of be way more willing to agree with you but at the moment the only ones profiting are the private companies “hiring” prisoners and the for-profit prison system.
Did someone drop new Epstein files?
Watch his trades, as he makes billions more off our suffering.
^ THIS
This news is the signal to the usual parasites in his orbit that there’s a play on the stock market about to happen again.
While it’s true and will definitely happen, that’s the carrot to get Trump to do these things. But I believe the goal is to keep destabilizing global trade. I think it’s part of the giant tech oligarch plan to take over the whole kit and caboodle. I bet if you ask AI how best to destabilize the global economy it would tell you to start a war in Iran to disrupt shipping, oil and gas production, and for one of the largest trade partners to levy huge tariffs on friendly trade partners.
If it wasn’t for China reducing their oil imports by a staggering 5 million barrels a day we would already be in an irreversible crisis.
It does feel like this administration is purposely trying to crash the economy. Like they want to kick off another great depression just to buy it all up when it all crashes.
putin likely told him to do it, as a destabalized us and EU benefits him.
I don’t think so. If it were, us average people could take advantage of it. It’s too late for us. They already knew.
Illegal taxes
The Supreme Court said this was ILLEGAL so I’m GLAD to see him Do It AGAIN!
-Law and Order Republicans!
Misdemeanor being in the country illegally? Brutalize and kill them and those who protests!
Multiple felonies and defiance of court orders? Worship him!
He’s white man who steals and rapes to his heart’s content, he’s very inspirational to a chunk of his base. 🤷♂️
Versus the U.S. employing prison labor for various industries, not increasing the federal minimum wage for two decades, and reducing even that paltry amount for the restaurant industry?
It’s literally just because they’re hoping this one will survive the inevitable legal challenges. The glass houses they’re in have been bulldozed years ago.
i wouldnt be surprised its mostly red states doing it. since they use the prison population as part of the census, to boost thier hold on the house seats.
Champions League of Tariffs
The countries targeted with 12.5% tariffs
Algeria, Angola, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Guyana, Hong Kong, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Peru, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela and Vietnam.
The countries hit with 10% tariffs
Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, the European Union, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, Taiwan and Trinidad and Tobago.
Oh god why won’t he just die??
Ah, another round of handouts to big companies at the expense of consumers and taxpayers (when this lot get shot down as well and they reimburse the companies that sell the tariffed goods, not the people who paid extra). It’s win win (well, not for you).
Didn’t we have a Supreme Court case that ruled this was illegal?
Too bad there’s no enforcement, I guess.
They’re using a different law to enact these is my understanding. Might have the same outcome, but for now it’s this.
Grandpa Orange has a short memory, so same old records are turning again.
Took my Chevy to the levy but it was too high to buy, So there’ll be no more drinking whiskey and rye….
Bye bye big american lie
Drove my country by a levy
But the levy caused us to cry
And good old bigots being racist till they die
Praising all the sycophants fucking lies
Praising all the fucking lies
America is so fucked, it’s beyond.
While Trump is unequivocally a massive loser, the title of this article is kind of misleading, isn’t it? Sure, it’s an imposition of “double-digit tariffs”, insofar as 10% to 12.5% is double-digit. The current tariffs are at 10% (also double-digit). Practically speaking this is all but an extension of the current tariffs
According to the Guardian:
“Canada, Mexico, Australia, EU, UK and China among dozens of economies listed in US president’s renewed effort of near-global import taxes after supreme court struck down his ‘liberation day’ tariffs”
These countries may now trade even more with each other, leaving the US out. This can pretty well backfire on US economy and I hope, not for the saint US people, but for this guy and his followers, that this will be the case.
