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On 2025-02-17 05:02, badgolferman wrote:
> Wilf <wilf21@is.invalid> wrote:
>> On 15/02/2025 at 14:20, badgolferman wrote:
>>> Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Trump regime is a bunch of fascists and the tech companies are
>>>> nothing but lickspittles.
>>>
>>> Why do people from Europe pay so much attention to American politics?
>>> Surely there are issues closer to home you should be bitching and
>>> moaning about.  Are you secretly jealous of us?
>>
>> Because your politics affects us.  Our greatest ally has suddenly
>> decided to stop being an ally and that is huge for us.  Instead Trump
>> has decided to bully your friends and decides to impose 20% tariffs on
>> imports from the UK because he thinks we levy 20% Value Added Tax (VAT)
>> on US imports.  Actually VAT is a sales tax on all purchases, whatever
>> their origin, even items produced within the UK.  I might have thought
>> that maybe Trump just doesn't know what VAT is, but you have sales taxes
>> at city, state and federal levels, so are you levying those taxes
>> unfairly on all your imports?
>>
> 
> 
> America has its own budgetary problems and has begun taking actions to
> address that. Government employees are being reduced and spending is being
> reduced across the board. We cannot keep pushing the deficit into higher
> trillions as we have been doing. Trade deficits and foreign military costs
> are big ticket items which must take the same cuts like the federal
> government is taking. NATO countries have woken up to the fact that they
> must take a bigger burden of defending their own territories than depending
> on big brother all the time. Here’s an article from a left-leaning
> publication which describes it better than I can.
> 
> https://www.politico.eu/article/us-recedes-nato-scrambles-find-new-leader-munich-security-conference/

If it's being "addressed"...

....if DOGE is really dealing with all the "waste"...

....why have the Republicans voted to lift the debt ceiling so much?