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LakeshoreFlyer 11-18-2020 01:48 AM

Delta Skirts Trump Tariffs Sending Airbus...
 
Interesting article on some of Delta's business practices I thought you folks would be interested in reading.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-on-world-tour

Simpsons 11-18-2020 02:27 AM

Rich people/companies don’t pay taxes

iahflyr 11-18-2020 05:56 AM

Counting the number of days until we don’t have to deal with these stupid tariffs anymore...

Excargodog 11-18-2020 07:46 AM


Originally Posted by LakeshoreFlyer (Post 3160223)
Interesting article on some of Delta's business practices I thought you folks would be interested in reading.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-on-world-tour

Hint: I didn’t vote for Biden. But seriously, do you think Trump Inc doesn’t take advantage of every legal loophole in the tax laws to avoid taxes? Really?

hydrostream 11-18-2020 07:51 AM

Standard. Make something that looks good politically while building a bunch of loopholes into it to allow companies to get around it.

Buck Rogers 11-18-2020 08:14 AM


Originally Posted by hydrostream (Post 3160315)
Standard. Make something that looks good politically while building a bunch of loopholes into it to allow companies to get around it.

Except, MSM will bill it initially as "TRUMP"S Terrible Tariffs" and beat him up politically, and then when companies skirt the tariffs, the MSM will never report on it or beat him up again for being stupid.

So, I'm not sure your "standard" is quite as standard as you think. Unless of course you mean your "standard" bash Trump any time you can twist an argument to do so. As a "not a Trump supporter" myself, I'm not totally blind to what MSM does....as well as Trump haters....not objective IMHO

LumberJack 11-18-2020 09:05 AM


Originally Posted by Buck Rogers (Post 3160332)
Except, MSM will bill it initially as "TRUMP"S Terrible Tariffs" and beat him up politically, and then when companies skirt the tariffs, the MSM will never report on it or beat him up again for being stupid.

So, I'm not sure your "standard" is quite as standard as you think. Unless of course you mean your "standard" bash Trump any time you can twist an argument to do so. As a "not a Trump supporter" myself, I'm not totally blind to what MSM does....as well as Trump haters....not objective IMHO

What's the point of a tariff with giant loopholes? Sounds like needless red tape and a waste of taxpayer money, all for the appearance of strength.

So yes, the tariffs are dumb.

2StgTurbine 11-18-2020 09:13 AM


Originally Posted by LumberJack (Post 3160371)
Sounds like needless red tape and a waste of taxpayer money.

In this case, it's not just taxpayer money being wasted. Delta is wasting a lot of money by not using the airframes as efficiently as they want to.

atooraya 11-18-2020 01:50 PM


Originally Posted by Buck Rogers (Post 3160332)
Except, MSM will bill it initially as "TRUMP"S Terrible Tariffs" and beat him up politically, and then when companies skirt the tariffs, the MSM will never report on it or beat him up again for being stupid.

So, I'm not sure your "standard" is quite as standard as you think. Unless of course you mean your "standard" bash Trump any time you can twist an argument to do so. As a "not a Trump supporter" myself, I'm not totally blind to what MSM does....as well as Trump haters....not objective IMHO

Why doesn't anyone point out that the only person tarries affect is the end consumer?

Tariffs on China? Your dishwasher costs more.

Tariffs on airplanes? You plane ticket costs more.

None of this back and forth has helped anything, especially with our trade deficit being the worst its been since 2006: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-...lance-of-trade

OOfff 11-18-2020 05:43 PM


Originally Posted by atooraya (Post 3160516)
Why doesn't anyone point out that the only person tarries affect is the end consumer?

Tariffs on China? Your dishwasher costs more.

Tariffs on airplanes? You plane ticket costs more.

None of this back and forth has helped anything, especially with our trade deficit being the worst its been since 2006: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-...lance-of-trade

I’m tired of winning.


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