Apple and Tesla to escape Trumps Chinese tariffs

@Jake966 That’s because you will need what ever extra income you get from over time to cover the higher cost of living which means you won’t be any better off that you are now.

@justanothername CNN

Tue May 14, 2024


President Joe Biden is increasing tariffs on $18 billion in Chinese imports across a handful of sectors deemed strategic to national security – an attempt to cripple Beijing’s development of critical technologies and instead prioritize US production.

The increases will apply to imported steel and aluminum, legacy semiconductors, electric vehicles, battery components, critical minerals, solar cells, cranes and medical products. The new tariff rates – which range from 100% on electric vehicles, to 50% for solar components, to 25% for all other sectors – will take place over the next two years.

“China’s using the same playbook it has before to power its own growth at the expense of others,” said Lael Brainard, director of the White House National Economic Council. “China’s simply too big to play by its own rules.”

Announcing the new tariffs during a speech in the Rose Garden on Tuesday, Biden said he seeks “fair competition with China, not conflict.”

“The fact is, American workers can out-work and out-compete anyone, as long as the competition is fair,” Biden said. “For too long, it hasn’t been fair.”

@justanothername you mean like the higher costs we’ve had the last 4 years under the vegetable Biden

@sunsporter1649 That’s old news.

@Prison1203 Yes, much higher.

@justanothername then Harris wanted to abolish all private health care so that wouldn’t be good either

@Jake966 which would you rather have? No health care or extremely high cost of living?

@justanothername I’ll take the private health care instead of the government telling me what care I can have

@Jake966 Abolishing private healthcare would be wonderful. Private healthcare is our greatest failure as a nation. A. True abomination.

@MethDozer then why are Canadians coming to the US for certain procedures ?

@MethDozer Yeah, we really need the same folks that run fema to do our healthcare, right?

@Jake966 Do you use private health care every day?

@Jake966 A few Canadians come to the US for healthcare. Why? Because these are typically wealthy Canadians and they don't feel like waiting in line for less than serious procedures.

The number of Americans who never receive the healthcare they need, cross the border to be able to afford their meds, or we just let die or have an amputation instead is astronomically higher.. same goes for the number of Americans who may have received the care, but are now without house and home in expenses from it. Let's not even talk about the number of patients who are flat out denied.


It's a fact that in the US we pay the highest prices for healthcare and have some of the worst rates in terms of curing, infant mortality, and stabilization. If you like our system you're either A) ignorant and believe the for-profit propaganda, or B) wealthy enough to not worry about it and don't give a shit about your fellow citizens. WE PAY MORE FOR LESS and that is undeniable.

So you can go ahead and move the goal posts and scream "BuRt CUhNAdiaNZzz" all you want but to uphold the US privatized healthcare in high esteem is just you saying " I don't care if everyone gets reasonable healthcare as long as this fragment can have access to the best. It's worth letting thousands go without for one to get it all".