Trump threatens 200% tariff on E.U. booze over tax on U.S. whiskey
Trump threatens 200% tariff on E.U. booze over tax on U.S. whiskey
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Trump threatens 200% tariff on E.U. wine and liquor, says world is 'ripping us off'
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Lmao, taxes/tariffs or not; everyone's boycotting your shit anyway. Fuck you America!
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I just want to point out Trump does not equal America. But, unfortunately, we kinda suck in other ways and have been fucking over other parts of the world for a while, so... 🤷
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As an American, please boycott us (and Israel), this Fascist empire needs to crumble quickly
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The American people voted that into office, either directly or by not bothering to vote against it.
America collectively chose this.
I feel for those that actually wanted different, but until you can get through to your friends, family, and neighbours to fix this mess; America is going to be judged by the actions of the representatives they voted for.
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Did the EU tarrif American alcohol or does trump think Canada is is in Europe?
Quick edit:
EU out a 50% tarrif on US whiskey yesterday, it's still unknown if Trump thinks Canada is in Europe tho
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It probably depends on the moment.
I feel it oscillates from "basically already a state" to "European nation that happens to be next to us" to "damn Canadians won't give me Greenland, must be the left."
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Greenland is basically Trans-Europe; born American but won’t admit it.
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If you find yourself in a hole remember it's a great hole.
~Donald Trump
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Oh no, a 200% tariff that he'll recall 48 hours later? How scary! Anything but that!
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What an absolute fucking man-child.
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I'm ... kinda ok with this particular, but my father was an abusive alcoholic. Although, his vice of choice was vodka which probably doesn't apply.
But fuck Trump tarrifs still, I just want a heavy booze tax, not some stupid man baby hissy fit with the rest of the world.
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The problem with that is people, especially alcoholics, are still going to drink. If its prohibitively expensive, they'll turn to bootleg liquor which is probably contaminated.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/istanbul-tainted-alcohol-people-dead/
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Yup, I know. Actually, when they did this with cigarettes they did see it go down a little with adults but the main thing was that it helped reduce youth smoking. Teens have a tighter budget for these things.
But the bootlegging is unique to booze, so yeah.
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What about mouthwash? What about huffing paint?
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But non-alcoholics might start looking to thc instead. This could hit booze corporations with a double whammy of a hard hit to their bottom line while forcing a lot of their customers to seek alternative adulterants.
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"One billion percent tariffs!" - DJT next week
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It's abundantly clear by the state of our nation that we need to drink a whole lot less alcohol and smoke a whole lot more weed.
One amplifies hatred, the other dispels it. Blow Marijuana in a Republican's face, it's your civic duty.
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I see Jameson's, I upvote.
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Noooooooooooooooooooooo
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Less Scotch whisky going to American and less American whiskey coming over here? I'm struggling to see a downside.
As a Canadian I’ll pick up the slack and buy more of your EU whiskey.
I like Irish — Jameson was my first whiskey and Red Breast is a favourite of mine. If Jameson brings back Crested I will purchase an entire case in day 1, I loved that one.
Currently I’ve got tons of Scotch — a few bottles of Oban, a couple Lagavulins, Bowmore 15, the Balvenie, Laphroig Lore, Edradour, Tomintoul, Cutty Sark, Glen Scotia…
I buy Macallan too but my shelf has too much on it to stock up right now.
You sound like someone in need of a Dalmore 18 or 15. I can't recommend it enough!
Who even likes American whiskey? So many better options...
There are great options everywhere, including American whiskey. But with so many options, losing one is not a big deal.
I'd be curious how many people go looking specifically for American whiskey purposely looking past all other alternatives because that's exactly what they want.
The only thing american whisky has going on for it is that it's the cheapest. I guess that won't be tha case with the tariff, so I don't know why would anyone buy it.
They taste different and I wouldn't even really compare. My pallet can't stand scotch, but corn and rye whiskeys from the US and Canada are great. That doesn't mean scotch is all trash, I just don't like the taste.
Yeah, for the rest of us outside the US, the price of that good Euro shit should go down.
BUT a lot of peated whisky is aged in bourbon casks imported from the US. I wonder if that's included in any tariffs or separate?
Nice to see whisky and whiskey both used correctly. One of the wildest spelling rules I know of…
Scotch isn't from EU though.
where is it from then?