I fought hard against that for years. I still only use 'app' for phone programs, but I stopped correcting people every time they used the term for anything else. It isn't technically wrong, but it grates on my nerves for some reason.
That is definitely his plan. Why else would he be so loud and purposefully using language designed to make people furious? I don't think the tariffs are his end game, but he is keeping something hidden behind all these theatrics. He is (probably) not going to run again, so what else could he be up to working everybody up like this? Could be that he is desperately hoping to slip away without going to prison for all his other crap.
I don't know what is in Trump's head. His handlers, at least, if not Trump himself, probably expected the raise in price. The whole price staying same thing is just a story to tell the people who would be paying that higher price and be mad about it. Either Trump knows this or his handlers know this. It isn't a miscalculation on their part, it is just how tariffs are supposed to move the market. I don't think Trump gets the tariff money, though he can put it on paper somewhere where it looks good for him. Really, whether or not tariffs raise the price of goods is a nonissue that just gets the news buzzing. The issue that should be on top is whether the approach is going to work at all. I can't find a source that can step back and analyze it. Either they are pro Trump and will lie to make it sound good, or they are anti Trump and they will over-blow it to try to cause as much fear as possible, whether it is actually doing the real job of alleviating the trade deficit or not.
The outrage is misplaced, it should be laser focused on the administration outsourcing prisons for immigrants, and maybe citizens. Making everything into an emergency is turning all this reporting into white noise, obscuring the real issues.(Which plays directly into Trumps hand.)
Really, there is only two good reasons to make tariffs. One is to increase the price of goods coming from outside of the country vs the price of goods made in the country. Americans paying more is a feature. This, of course, makes us mad when we pay for those more expensive things and makes us more likely to buy the things made in America. This anger isn't politically expedient, so the Trumper lies to make it seem like there will be no change and that gets to be the big news item.
The second reason for tariffs is to make American goods cheaper in other countries. Ideally If he sets the tariffs to automatically match the tariffs other countries have on imports of American goods, those countries will adjust their tariffs down to make their goods sell better in America. Then, supposing that happens, American goods would be more competitive in those markets.
In theory all that is pretty fair... especially if the tariffs are exactly matching the other country's tariffs.
Arbitrary or punitive tariffs are counter-productive to both of those items.
Unfortunately, it seems like this basic theory is as far as anybody is planning.
Also, Trump is loud and obnoxious about everything that is done.
The biggest obvious problem is that the US doesn't have the manufacturing capabilities anymore, so disrupting the trade hurts American companies designed around getting their manufacturing done outside of the country.
People's wages and living expenses are planned around cheap imports, this puts a strain on the lowest paid people in our country.
Really, if the tariffs 'work out' then it is a good thing, but they definitely seem to be ham-fisting it.
This guy is a hero. Inkscape is so much better than Adobe. Also, I couldn't have done some recent PDF to AutoCad conversions without that software. Autocad chokes on pulling vectors out of PDFs for some reason. It does it, but it is a mess. The bad thing is I know it could do better because if you just pull in the same PDF that it struggled with as an external source, it renders it fine, including all the vector information. I could be doing something wrong, but it shouldn't be that hard.
That cat would have 3 arms if it relied on me remembering to look before I slam the door even with the note... I would have to affix some cloth on that gap or something.
Well, you are trying embarrassingly hard to silence me at least. That is fine. I was definitely positing an unlikely but possible case, I do suffer from extreme anxiety and what sets it off has nothing to do with logic, but you are also overstating the ethics violation by suggesting that any harm they could cause is real or significant in a way that wouldn't happen with regular interaction on random forums.
In that case, any interaction would be unethical. How do you know that I don't have an intense fear of the words "justify the means"? You could have just doomed me to a downward spiral ending in my demise. As if I didn't have enough trouble. You not only made me see it, you tricked me into typing it.
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I fought hard against that for years. I still only use 'app' for phone programs, but I stopped correcting people every time they used the term for anything else. It isn't technically wrong, but it grates on my nerves for some reason.