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Donald Trump on Thursday announced a 35% tariff on Canadian imports, starting Aug. 1, citing that Ottawa had retaliated with tariffs against Washington.

“Instead of working with the United States, Canada retaliated with its own Tariffs,” Trump said in his letter to Mark Carney, prime minister of Canada, posted on Truth Social.

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A guy walks over to his friend's friend's house and tells him to pay up or else. The reasonable response would be to spit in his face and tell him to get bent.

Trump's policy decisions killed those people in Texas & Epstein helped him and other sick rich monsters rape kids

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'd have more respect for our Canadian leaders if even ONE of them would just stand up at a podium and say "nope...we're ignoring it. Everyone knows it's a pump and dump scheme to deflate and reinflate stocks. And in a week he'll be removing them."

Everyone KNOWS he's a fucking grifter, but politicians don't want to say it out loud.

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[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago

Carney: looks like it's time to start dumping US bonds again.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Carney needs to call them out and publicly state that the taxes are never going to end because Trump is using them as a fundraising scheme.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Best he can do is cut funding for health care to fund a new military industrial complex.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Honestly, is there anything stopping a country from just "mirroring" US tariffs? US gives them X% tariffs, they give the US X% tariffs back. Is this feasible? Or is it a crappy idea?

[–] mxc@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think this is what Europe has done in the past, however you want to target products that don't damage your own economy by making them more expensive. That seems harder to do.

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