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Another issue is that the president does not have the authority to levy and collect taxes, which is what his tariff scheme does. 

Per the US Constitution, Art 1 §8 Cl 1:

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States".

It's quite amusing that Stephen Miller calls this decision a "judicial coup", given the pervasive usurpation of judicial and legislative authority by the White House and its clown cabinet. It's J6 2025 to be certain.

I'm glad my kids are grown and faring very well in the world. We raised them from an early age with guidance, expectations and rules, and they were quite aware that they didn't want to disappoint us. We did not prohibit their access to things, and although they made a few mistakes sometimes, they knew we expected them to make smart decisions. And often they would ask us first if we would be OK with something.  Maybe we just had really smart kids.

I expect the government to stay the f**k out of our parenting. I'm afraid we would be scofflaw parents in this case and wouldn't restrict access to much of anything. Our kids could go to the library and look at any book or magazine they wanted to, just like I did when I was young. Somehow the world didn't crash.

Look at your own lives: I daresay the vast majority of us have matured reasonably well without the government restrictions on the minutiae of our behavior.  

DAalseth said:

https://gizmodo.com/apples-stock-price-falls-after-exec-says-it-is-considering-injecting-safari-with-ai-2000599351

The markets seem unimpressed. 
Not that it’s any skin off my nose. This was the last straw for me. After dealing with Safari crashes and freezes, and having to restart my system every few days because it just decided to not open any pages (on my phone, iPad, and Mac as well as others I support) and now them looking at putting AI **** in it, I’m done. Safari is a POS and I just moved to a DuckDuckGo. Apple seems to be mostly interested in the hype and not producing a quality browser by fixing the numerous issues that have been around for ages.

I acknowledge in advance that I may be a simpleton with simple needs, but I haven't restarted my iMac in two years. Safari has never crashed or frozen for me, no matter what OS version. I don't have specialty apps, just the mainstream ones. I know they shouldn't affect the browser in any event, but who knows. I don't know anyone else who has your problem, but maybe I need a wider group of acquaintances.

mike_galloway said:

Whilst the short term ups and downs of the stock market can be ignored, the bond markets and dollar depreciation cannot, unless the USA wants higher borrowing and imports costs (above the tariff increases) and a risk of loosing reserve currency status. 

Lowering interest rates and tax cuts would make this all far worse.

While I agree that daily stock fluctuations of ±10-15 points doesn't matter, a loss of 5,000 points in a month matters greatly, as it can cause companies to sell assets, cementing the loss, and it affects borrowing, investing, manufacturing, sales and employees. You're correct about the bond market and currency devaluation. Losing the US Dollar's reserve currency status is quite remote at this time, though, as there is no other currency that can take it's place for a variety of reasons.

Stabitha_Christie said:

Of all the issues that the President of the United States has to address how do Apple's business practices even rank? 

It was next on his list, right after "You can't be who you want to be" and "You can't love who you want to love", and "You can't read what you want to read".

The man has priorities, you know.