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blastdoor said: of course it’s possible. It would just be more expensive to do that than pay the tariff, especially given that the tariff might not be there by the time the US supply chain is built.

A. Tariffs make imported materials and parts more expensive.
B. U.S. manufacturing relies heavily on imported materials and parts.

What do you think that adds up to? 

Trump doesn’t have legal authority to levy tariffs. The emergency power statute that he’s citing is for sanctions only. No mention of of tariff or taxation power in the language so it fails the Supreme Court’s Major Questions Doctrine.

Video game consoles: 30% commission on sales in 1st party digital store + no 3rd party digital stores + 30% commission on discs sold in 3rd party retail. That business model has never been ruled to have supracompetitive rates by a U.S. court and it predates the iPhone and App Store. Epic has tried to argue that model is "okay" because console makers don't make as much profit on hardware as Apple. But that argument is not legally based. There is no law that states specific levels of profit allowed for a company that sells a closed system. 

The dirty little secret of AI: the LLM program isn’t nearly as important as the database that the LLM is “trained” on. That’s the reason that the Trump administration fired the head librarian for the Library of Congress. That position also has control over the U.S. Copyright Office.

Stabitha_Christie said: He and Musk were going to cut 2 trillion from the federal budget. DOGE has saved 170 billion but it spent 135 billion to do it. So 2 trillion actually turned out to be 35 billion. 

It's even worse than that. The DOGE firings at the IRS are estimated to result in a $500 billion drop in tax revenue.

https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2025/03/25/irs-cuts-may-cost-500-billion-in-lost-tax-revenue-as-taxpayers-exploit-system/157841/