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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @itsrealfake 2 Apr \ parent \ on: Trump's "Liberation Day" Tariffs are a Mistake econ
this is contradictory.
i don't have time for the rest of it
You’re arguing with a CCP chat bot.
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does feel that way, doesn't it.
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Only because it seems easier for you to attack the messenger than to respond with reason, fact and logic to the message.
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I live in New Zealand and am certainly not a CCP bot or Chinese.
New Zealand has practised very open trade for decades while the US has retained hugely obstructive trade stance toward us.
You use this dishonest and abusive name calling attack on me (not for the first time either) because you know you cannot debate the facts and issues in a fair and rational contest of ideas.
Your lack the confidence and ability to defend and support your ideas when they are challenged and so resort to childish untrue attacks on the messenger.
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The tariff (goods and service tax(GST)) is charged on imports and NZ businesses- this in not contradictory. It simply creates a level playing field for domestic and offshore producers- retailers.
For example previously aliexpress sales to NZ residents were not charged GST so they avoided the tax giving them an unfair advantage over NZ producers of similar products- now they are charged (since about 2018) and so the tax on domestic and offshore producers is equal.
The US is the hypocrit as the US already charges sales taxes on imports and in fact restricts imports of multiple goods from NZ already for example dairy products which NZ produces much more efficiently than US producers can - yet the US acting as a sore loser and bully is now imposing tariff on NZ exports on top of the extensive obstruction of free trade with NZ that US already imposes.
You 'dont have time for the rest of it' because you know you are wrong.
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