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Trump signs 100% tariff on brand-name pharmaceuticals
(www.usatoday.com)
This dude is an idiot
doesn't this just immediately violate the EU trade deal his cronies lobbied so hard to pass recently?
The 4th paragraph:
The European Union, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland and the United Kingdom are exempt from the tariff due to existing trade deals with the United States.
Honestly at this point, if JD hasn't invoked the 25th then someone needs to declare him incompetent and remove him.
He's just as incompetent for not doing it by now.
Is there a meta 25th?
Oh my god, Trump wants to lower drug prices, so he's doubling the price of medications available from literally nowhere else.
Years ago, I worked at a hospital that hired an old psychiatrist who we quickly realized was prescribing Geodon to almost everyone. Schizophrenia? Geodon. Bipolar? Geodon. Depression? Geodon. Borderline personality disorder? Geodon. Well, he only last a few weeks before being relieved of duty, and turns out he was in the early stages of Alzheimer's.
This story is about Donald Trump and tariffs.
Actually lowering prices would require regulation, and he's built his entire corporate campaign on "we're getting rid of every regulation". Much easier to make them look lower in comparison.
We just got done establishing that tariffs are not a presidential privilege! What contrivance will they think up this time to “justify” it? Or are we officially past the stage of pretending now?
Unfortunately, they've only established that the 1974 emergency powers act is not a legal way to establish tariffs; all other tariffs established by justifying them through other means are still (potentially) legal.
Thanks for reminding me, that’s a good point.
Or are we officially past the stage of pretending now?
Pretty sure we're well past that point, but that word "officially" just means you can pick any arbitrary point and call that the "official" point we crossed the line. heh
Looky there! Republicans supporting higher taxes. Again.
What happened to the Supreme Court's ruling that tariffs imposed by executive order are unconstitutional?
Plus SCOTUS made their ruling too narrow and it stopped only some if these unconstitutional tariffs.
That was the plan
It is the little known "who is going to stop me when I break the constitution" loophole in the constitution.
These tariffs are illegal. This is all meaningless.
Illegal? Probably. Will this stop them from enforcing them? No.
Are they even announced officially, or does he just "truth" them?
Oh sweet child, truth social is the official White House communications channel now.
A lot of pharmaceuticals are non-flexible markets. In other words, companies can simply pass on the 100% tax to those who need the medicine.
Good, make it harder for people to get the medicine they need to survive, surely that wont radicalize a whole bunch of even more people into hating your fucking guts with the fury of 100 suns.
The problem is we're all too tired and too used to the bullshit. People believe "gummit can't do anything" so don't believe that this shit works - like it works in every other OECD ("Developed") country..........
So just one more thing? It won't be enough.
But that's why we need the continued discussion online, and the protests that don't appear to be accomplishing much of anything yet - we need that groundswell of energy to increase. It's not increasing quickly, but it is slowly increasing.
For example, 5 years ago when I'd talk about how fascism was breaking our democracy, I got some support but mostly feedback. That's changed. So the discussion online has at least made progress. That's the type of thing necessary to get us to making change.
It sucks because it's going to take a long time because the fascists have done a decent job with propaganda and education.
More and more of us need to be more and more fed up to get to the point where enough of us demand change and are willing to fight for it^[in any of the possible ways, from becoming representatives to perhaps actual fighting if we get to that point] - enough to overcome the exhaustion of living like this and the bombardment of bad news.
It's not easy.
florida rejoice!
Cue big increases in drug insurance prices and in percentage of people who can't afford needed medicines. Just another tax on those who have no say -- taxation without representation like days of yore.
JFC, this guy is such an asshole.
Christ. And this is already after our few scripts have tripled in cost over the last few years.
Does he ever stop to think, am I allowed by law to do this before writes these EOs?
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