President Donald Trump’s import taxes will hit about 5% of what Canada ships to the United States every year, including products ranging from hockey sticks to tongue depressors.
I’ve said it elsewhere and I’ll say it here once again, Canada and probably Mexico need to see about putting a total embargo on US goods, services, and flights. Hold them until Trump is dead or out of power, if it collapses the US economy and maybe the feds as well who cares. I’m saying this as a Californian who’s local economy is held up by the transportation of goods along the 10 and 15.
Probably but Mexico and Canada have the most direct incentives. China for example doesn’t want the US to implode since that has a solid chance to eliminate one of their major consumer bases and depending on how the US comes out of it either intact or not it could result in broad economic realignment towards locally produced goods and decreased consumption therein.
True, but at the end of the day, the goal is to force US to some common sense, not its implosion, though implosion could happen anyway even if we do nothing.
You want the damage to be quick and brutal so as to cause as much friction as possible, taxes won’t necessarily due this due to the fact the goods and resources that are effected would likely still be present. Better to remove materials outright and cause as much friction as possible, make the demands for Trump’s removal clear and also make it clear that succession would have the same opening of trade.
I’ve said it elsewhere and I’ll say it here once again, Canada and probably Mexico need to see about putting a total embargo on US goods, services, and flights. Hold them until Trump is dead or out of power, if it collapses the US economy and maybe the feds as well who cares. I’m saying this as a Californian who’s local economy is held up by the transportation of goods along the 10 and 15.
EU, China and others should join the fun as well.
Probably but Mexico and Canada have the most direct incentives. China for example doesn’t want the US to implode since that has a solid chance to eliminate one of their major consumer bases and depending on how the US comes out of it either intact or not it could result in broad economic realignment towards locally produced goods and decreased consumption therein.
True, but at the end of the day, the goal is to force US to some common sense, not its implosion, though implosion could happen anyway even if we do nothing.
Ah I think it would be more appropriate to enact excise taxes on energy to the us at this point maybe 10-15 cents a kwhr 30-50 per barrel of oil.
Call it the asshole tax
Not sure where Lemmy gets its information from, but Canada is a net importer of US electricity since 2023.
And we don’t make oil, we extract bitumen sludge and send it to be refined in Texas.
You want the damage to be quick and brutal so as to cause as much friction as possible, taxes won’t necessarily due this due to the fact the goods and resources that are effected would likely still be present. Better to remove materials outright and cause as much friction as possible, make the demands for Trump’s removal clear and also make it clear that succession would have the same opening of trade.