PCB mfrs & the tariffs

Clearly, you haven't asked any of them.

Any organised political party is undemocratic. Sadly, getting democratic agreement takes quite a while, and if you need to get things done, you can't be perfectly democratic. Proportional representation, multi-candidate electorates and the coalition governments they produce are a better approximation to democratic government than anything the US has.

Donald Trump hasn't got common sense. He peddles popular delusions to people too dumb to realise that they are delusions

Not a plausible hypothesis.

Very wealthy people spend a lot of money on propaganda to that effect.

At the moment the very rich in the US are vying with the oligarchs in Russia and the top party officials in North Korea in their enthusiasm for ripping off the rest of the population.

Countries with a more nearly equal income distribution - not all that equal but a lot less extreme - do rather better.

The Laffer Curve was never much more than a scribble on a table napkin. Economists have played with the idea for centuries, but it isn't a useful way of thinking about what's actually going on, and is typically invoked by people who don't want to think about that.

Yeah. What you need right now is a rich dictator and 347 million minions. You know what? You're getting there!

Jeroen Belleman

Within that 347 million, the ratio of productive people divided by government employees is improving.

Ditto the ratio of productive people to criminals.

And, of course, it's OK to admire beautiful women again.

The myth that government employees aren't productive is one that big business has been trying to spread since the 1930's.

It's a remarkably gross over-simplification, but one that big n\business has spent a lot of money on propagating.

Making criminals part of the executive branch doesn't make them any less criminal.

Calling inoffensive illegal immigrants criminals and throwing them out of the country is one way of improving the statistics, but it is also criminal libel, and a criminal abuse of procedure.

And grab them by the pussy? Donald Trump and his friend Jeffrey Epstein aren't great role models here.

DHL is just bailing out:

Because of the new customs regulations DHL will reduce the transport of parcels from .de to the US. After the 22. of August, German Post and DHL ( a subsidiary of German Post Service) will no longer accept & transport parcels and international wares-mails from commercial customers until further notice.

Furthermore the logistics company said that private customers can only send parcels that are declared as presents, less than $100 worth. Worth > $100 will require to send it in express mode, for much higher prices. For company customers that already takes effect next Tuesday.

It is still unclear how long that will last. Important questions are still open: who will handle the customs, what additional data are required and how the data will be sent to US customs. Other national post companies have taken these steps already: Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark.

Per ordre di Mufti the tariff exemptions for goods < $800 are gone. Instead there are tariffs from 80 to 200 $.

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Have fun etching boards for 0.98 each; a 3 day service for a cup of rice a day, and welcome back to the cotton fields. It will be the local kids who'll make the $3.99 T-shirts and no longer those hidden kid-slaves in BanglaDesh. A large step towards honesty.

FLA and others have already reduced the minimum age to 14.