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Old 11-18-2020, 01:48 AM
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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
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Rich people/companies don’t pay taxes
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Counting the number of days until we don’t have to deal with these stupid tariffs anymore...
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Originally Posted by LakeshoreFlyer View Post
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?
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Standard. Make something that looks good politically while building a bunch of loopholes into it to allow companies to get around it.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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