How? By taxing the shit out of the wealthy.

There should be no billionaires. Period. If someone created something so insanely valuable that they actually earned a billion, then awesome for them. They can still have $999 million and be better off than 99.999% of the world. Most people who have over a billion got that money through screwing over people and exploitation. They don’t deserve to have more than a billion. Nobody needs more than a billion, and I can’t think of anyone who has actually earned it.

The next step is targeting the way wealthy people get wealthier. Tax assets instead above some number of millions instead of just income and capitol gains. Change the way corporate officers are paid and how boards of directors are made up of other corporate officers all voting for each other to get higher salaries. I’m not smart enough to come up with a way to attack the profits made by exploiting cheap labor in other markets, but maybe something like a global minimum wage that lifts up workers in other countries while not giving CEOs as much incentive to do it.

Finally, I would go after housing costs. I would ban corporations from owning single family housing and place a HUGE tax on individuals owning more than 3 homes (with moderate taxes on more than 1 home, then a higher tax on the 3rd home, then a ridiculous tax on the 4th). Limiting foreign ownership would also help out.

1. I’m not sure how much of their profit margin Apple would give up. It depends on how much phone sales slow down when prices go up. Is the cell phone market elastic or inelastic?

2. The labor is 2.5x more expensive than minimum wage. Do you think Apple will have minimum wage workers doing relatively skilled labor like soldering and assembling electronics? I’ll likely be more in the $15-$20/hour range before even looking at benefits. I don’t know how many person hours go into assembling a phone, but it’s not just a few. That alone would probably add a few hundred to every phone.

3. Like you said, the most expensive portion is not the labor, it’s the parts that are mostly sourced from China and Taiwan… which have huge tariffs in the scenario Trump is talking about.

Because he has other things he wants from an electronic voting system company.

If you just have the seat paired with a normal American toilet, I don’t think it does much. But the seat with the Toto toilet, which has FAR less water in the bowl when doing your business, is very effective when things don’t go off to the side or not fully underwater. It’s always annoyed me how much smellier toilets can be in Europe if you miss the deep but narrow “chute.”

I have a toilet seat that opens for me when I walk up, lights up the bowl for me, is heated, has an air filter for smells, a bidet and blow dryer, and closes when I leave. Might as well give it a pulse-ox and ECG while I’m at it.

Yes, they export a lot, but this would only be to one country. The US is likely their biggest trade partner by a large margin, but they could still trade with 176 other countries.

It will hurt them but not cripple them. The US gets SO MANY things from China that it would cripple our country. Every computer chip outside of the TSMC fabs, every junk toy, half our clothing, tons of car parts, everything sold at Harbor Freight and Home Depot, cell phones, etc. They’ll still be able to sell those to the rest of the world, but the US would have to switch up our entire global supply chain. It would take years to recover.

Oh stop that. He knows exactly what he’s doing. It’s a reverse pump and dump to make insiders more money, while also destabilizing the global economy to help Russia.

Hmm, a 30 minute old account with two posts about the same website that sells skins. Definitely not at all a shill.

This is a new woman fired for being a woman. The big news one was the Coast Guard who had a woman leading the entire force.

Rich people and corporations buy up all the houses to rent out to poor people or rich tourists. That creates a shortage of homes that are for sale for normal people to buy. It’s a false shortage. Banning corporations and foreign people from owning homes would solve a lot of it. Huge taxes for owning more than 3 homes would probably do the rest.

Good, fuck scalpers. This is no different from people buying up 15 PS5s and then selling them on eBay for triple the cost. They are adding nothing of value to the world, only helping rich people be lazy.

Even if that did happen, the next step is keeping the prices of goods made in the US cost competitive. Wages in the US are far higher, so everything would STILL cost more.

I don’t think that’s an accurate statement. Maybe most of the enlisted people are, but a very large percentage of the officers hate him. He is their commanding officer, and they openly insult him. They ridicule him constantly and talk about how terrible his decisions are. They joke about how stupid the SecDef’s plans are. And they do all this in front of their superior officers.

The officers make an oath about defending the constitution, but they also hold very strongly to their duty to protect the people they command. Trump puts those people in jeopardy for no damn reason, so many hate him for that.

Trying to read whatever the hell you tried to write here was as difficult as reading stream of consciousness shit from Joice. I have no idea what you are even trying to say. Perhaps use periods and commas and capital letters??

I also read that there is a translation issue with the word cake. It was originally reported as saying “brioche,” not cake. Brioche is a type of bread, not a cake like we think of. It is still indicative of a lack of awareness, since the line was uttered in response to poor people not being able to afford bread and she suggested brioche instead, as if there is much difference.

And sales tax, which is usually used to offset income tax in no-tax states, effects the poor WAY more than income tax. People making less than a certain amount pay no income tax but still have to pay sales tax. I doubt they will implement a luxury goods sales tax, while the 10% tax on a pound of meat is far harder to pay for by a person barely making ends meet than for a person buying ground Wagyu.

This is an April Fools joke. It isn’t real.

It’s one thing for states like FL, TX, and WA to do this, since they have tourism, oil, and/or high sales tax to make up for it. But Mississippi doesn’t have anything going for it except for an efficient use of the alphabet in its name. This will absolutely cause the state to crumble even more and become more of a welfare state.

They have remote drivers that CAN take control in very corner case situations that the software can’t handle. The vast majority of driving is don’t without humans in the loop.

Good guy Trump, creating world peace through being the worst option for everyone involved.