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[alebrewer]

You are something. I answered as rationally as you did, preventing my point of view, and you call it hysterics. I should not have gone down the rabbit hole with you. I;ll let someone else waste their time.

This is what I'm talking about:

It would be a disaster - the govt, already broke, would be underfunded. Who will pay for the military if there is a shortfall?

You always spout the absolute worst disaster you can dream up - as if it will actually come to pass. That, by definition, is hysterics. If folks use the black market then the government will be underfunded and we won't be able to fund the military. That is complete and utter nonsense, yet you spout it as if it's fact. Again - its unbecoming.

 

[cashcatz]

Who is going to pay for the infrastructure?

Direct users of that infrastructure, as it should be. Why should non car owners have to pay for some bro dudes mall crawler super highway?

Russia and Chile has been building toll roads and it's been very effective. Also, want to go by train or plane - buy a ticket which pays for infra, etc.

Local roads can be handled by tax on car owners in the city via any number of strategies (location of registration, tax to park, etc).

 

[alebrewer]

Toll roads are a perfect example of consumption taxes. It forces the users of those goods/services to pay for them.

 

[Dale Floyd]

I’m referencing transactions much more sophisticated than just Amazon purchases. I’m talking about electronic transactions that boggles the mind in sheer numbers.

For instance - Trillions of dollars are passed through Wall Street in transaction numbers that are so vast, humans are unable to physically handle them. (Computers carry out the majority of all daily transactions involving mutual funds, stocks, bonds, crypto, ETPs, commodities, etc. in transactions numbering in the billions annually.). Taxing finite sources like people’s incomes or the eggs they buy, would be much less needful, if at all. Difficult to believe a small transaction fee would cripple the transfer. We pay more than that to a portal for one appraisal that used to cost nothing, but have we turned to crypto or cash because of the fee?

Perhaps there are other ideas, outside the dead horses of all the other taxes that penalize the achievements of our people.

 

[BRCJR]

A mandatory fee per electronic transaction is still a tax.

Nope, it is not a fee everyone must pay. It is a voluntary act, one chooses to complete a transaction in this manner, and the fee is for the service provided.

 

[Fernando]

That is so regressive and hurts the poor.
It's Prime Sale starting today.
I already made 3 separate orders. More to come.
I looked at my past orders when I thought tariffs would cost more.
I see products I bought several months ago are cheaper now.
The tariffs are not hurting other countries. No wonder they're not motivated to deal with Trump.

 

[alebrewer]

I see products I bought several months ago are cheaper now.
The tariffs are not hurting other countries.

How do you surmise that, since goods are cheaper in the US, tariffs aren't hurting other countries? Not sure how you connected those dots, Fern.

 

[Fernando]

How do you surmise that, since goods are cheaper in the US, tariffs aren't hurting other countries? Not sure how you connected those dots, Fern.

Even with 20+% tariffs, foreign countries still make money or less profit and they don't need to make deals with Trump.
Canada trades with US because it's the neighborly way. If neighbor such a pain, trade with other people.
And that's what Canada is doing.
Canada signed natural gas deal with China which would been unheard of in past.
The gas instead of going to US will be going to China. Thanks Trump.

 

[alebrewer]

Even with 20+% tariffs, foreign countries still make money or less profit and they don't need to make deals with Trump.
Canada trades with US because it's the neighborly way. If neighbor such a pain, trade with other people.
And that's what Canada is doing.
Canada signed natural gas deal with China which would been unheard of in past.
The gas instead of going to US will be going to China. Thanks Trump.

ya know, I've read this three times - and each time it makes less sense. That's not easy, Fern. I'm impressed.

 

[BRCJR]

Even with 20+% tariffs, foreign countries still make money or less profit and they don't need to make deals with Trump.
Canada trades with US because it's the neighborly way. If neighbor such a pain, trade with other people.
And that's what Canada is doing.
Canada signed natural gas deal with China which would been unheard of in past.
The gas instead of going to US will be going to China. Thanks Trump.

the USA has all the natural gas we need. come to my neck of the woods and I can show you capped well after capped well.