How about we just match the exact tariff rates china applies on cars imported from the USA.
Very good point!
Well, maybe. The problem with weighted average is what are you averaging. For example, a lot of what we export to China is basic foodstuff (like soybeans) which China has a political incentive to keep low cost. That is a low margin commodity that they import because they cannot produce locally.
Taxes cannot be inherently good or evil. Regardless of your beliefs about taxes, that is a bad sentence.
Thought you might appreciate this article from NY Mag that showed up in the FireFox feed this morning. I found it very applicable to our discourse.
America has been meddling in other countries elections for decades. We are the bully who intimidates everyone else on the playground but the second someone hits us back we run away crying.
Except that is totally normal behavior for the president of the united states.
Yeah I am aware of the details, I have been following it. They used an environmental group to squash it because that’s the easiest way to squash anything in California. If I was a betting man I would say there is a less than 10% chance it ever makes it onto the ballot. I also bet that some item being pushed by the…
Nope still funny.
Except we have all sorts of ballot initiatives in California that permenantly change things.
The Judges unanimously deciding to block a ballot initiate on the argument that having it on there would “do harm” despite it needing to be approved by both the state and federal government. They blocked it politically.
That’s an entirely different argument than saying its illegal.
Its funny how many Kinja commenters are pro-popular vote for the presidential election but are against this ballot initiative.
without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Religion:
Yup, the people who use name calling and insults when people disagree with them in a polite manner are totally better...
The US constitutions does not ban states splitting up. Its happened before.
Basic argument was because California was so large the state government was out of touch with large swaths of the population. The thinking was you would create three reasonably sized states each centered around one metropolitan area which is the way most states are. All of this grew out of the push to make the state’s…
you treat your political views as if they are religion and anyone who does not heed them is a heretic. Fanatics are fanatics regardless of which side of the tennis court they sit on.