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Tim Cook meets with President Trump at the White House
Trump was serious about tariffs in his 1st term and all it resulted in was gigantic taxpayer funded bailouts for the farming industry. Talk about inefficiency and waste…blastdoor said:We are likely to soon find out if these tariffs are a shakedown for bribes or if Trump is really serious about them.I used to think they were mostly a shakedown but now I think he might be serious
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/01/21/trump-tariff-aid-to-farmers-cost-more-than-us-nuclear-forces/
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Trump's tariffs could drive up iPhone prices by about 10%
Gutting regulations and handing out tax cuts to the rich and corporations isn't anything new in the Republican party. They've been doing it for the last 45 years. Reagan, Bush I, Bush II and Trump are all the same in that regard and it always leads to higher income inequality and an economic crisis. Despite how predictable it is, a large percentage of the voting public still hasn't figured it out.blastdoor said: The real difference -- and it's critically important to understand-- between then and now is that back then there was a system for selecting presidential candidates that was mostly run by elites, not the masses. Candidates were selected by party machines in the proverbial smoky back room. That process eliminated radical candidates and presented the populace with two mostly sane and reasonable, though still importantly different, choices.
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Trump's tariffs could drive up iPhone prices by about 10%
The general population of the U.S. was smarter at that time. The current population still hasn't figured out that an anti-regulatory party isn't going to improve economic outcomes for anyone except the rich.blastdoor said: The Great Depression resulted in FDR
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Trump's tariffs could drive up iPhone prices by about 10%
See the chart below...your theory isn't off to a good start. It appears the business world views the Trump administration as a green light for more predatory practices.dominikhoffmann said: Let’s not bitch about a 10% tariff, when the last four years brought us > 25% inflation on groceries, which make for a much larger proportion of a family’s budget than an iPhone or two a year.
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TikTok has returned to the Apple App Store
That's what Republicans mean when they say they want to run the government like a business. They want to enrich themselves rather than serve the public at large.Appleish said:Totally Unrelated Headline from the non-tech world:
"Trump Family Rakes In 100+ Million Since Inauguration"
I apologize for injecting this totally unrelated headline into this completely separate story.
