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Fantasy island

May 12, 2019 10:57PM PDT

The wall.
Mexico is going to pay for it.
That did not seem to work out very well.

Tariffs.
China is paying.

The Don.
Talks with China continue in a very congenial manner - there is absolutely no need to rush - as Tariffs are NOW being paid to the United States by China of 25% on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods & products. These massive payments go directly to the Treasury of the U.S...

Does the Don really believe that or is that the conman/salesman talking?

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Related story.
May 13, 2019 5:28AM PDT

A government official just admitted that consumers are or will be paying the tariffs in the form of necessary price hikes by sellers.
Find your own link. I'm too weak from hunger to do all that tapping. Happy

"Easy to win".

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Bosh! Bosh! De plane!
May 13, 2019 5:36AM PDT
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Election
May 13, 2019 7:39AM PDT

I don't pretend to know what China is going to do.

Perhaps just let it ride out until the next election and see if the Don gets tossed out on his ear.

If the trade war/easy to win is still going come next election that's not going to be much of a selling point for the Don.

Sort of like raising taxes and expecting voters to vote for you.

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RE:tossed out on his ear.
May 13, 2019 8:13AM PDT
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Sense....nope
May 13, 2019 8:48AM PDT

The Don was trained or learned that you can just make up stuff and BS your way through life.

In the business world with his squad of lawyers it worked out quite well for him.

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(NT) Just heard that James Cameron is Canadian.
May 13, 2019 4:47PM PDT
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It was already a "tariff war"
May 13, 2019 1:50PM PDT

Initiated against the US years ago. We are just finally addressing it.

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(NT) yes, stupidly
May 13, 2019 5:58PM PDT
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Tariffs
May 13, 2019 1:49PM PDT

How the USA obtained revenue prior to Wilson's administration of getting an Income Tax Law passed. Nothing unusual about it.

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It goes back further.
May 13, 2019 4:46PM PDT

I've said before that Kees and Dafydd are the ones to ask. Both their countries were hip deep in tariffs for centuries, along with the accoutrements like corrupt port officials, smuggling etc. I think Dafydd could curl our hair with tales from western Wales and Cornwall. Pirates of Penzance had a theme familiar to its audience.

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Tariffs.
May 13, 2019 6:24PM PDT

Late here, my last post. Not sure if I understsand the West Wales and Cornwall bit.
Dafydd.

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Smugglers, false lights on shore,
May 14, 2019 3:07AM PDT

anything to get goods without fees.

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Island
May 25, 2019 8:36AM PDT

Everyone has to find his own fantasy island.For me i would like to live in Dominican Republic.

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why not Haiti?
May 25, 2019 11:39AM PDT

same island of Hispanola.

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(NT) Huge difference in government, these days.
May 25, 2019 2:48PM PDT