To meet a global thirst for American whiskey in recent years, distilleries that make bourbon and rye — and sell it around the world — have sprung up across the country. But this week the European Union applied a 25 percent duty to American whiskey in response to Mr. Trump’s steel tariffs, spiking the prices of the iconic American tipple on the Continent………………………………………
European tariffs on peanut butter will be a blow for the makers of Peter Pan and Skippy spreads, but it is peanut farmers in Republican-leaning states like Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi who could struggle the most..
Here's the scam: Companies are applying like mad for waivers. What's that you say, "you didn't contribute to the campaign or you criticized Orange McFuckface?" Sorry about your luck. http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/national/tsuna…
Went to a talk earlier this week by an economist who wrote a book asking if the US could ever go bankrupt. Asked him if Donald was going to destroy the economy. Without hesitating, he said yes.
A Trump supporting soybean farmer whose farm has lost ≈ $250k in value due to tariffs: “This isn’t just numbers on a sheet or percentage of trade or dollar value. This is multi-generational American families, your base, that you are now squarely putting into financial peril.” https://twitter.com/danmericaCNN/status/101012224…
[It never went away for me.]
Rescission also.
Related via RS [ but didn't use them because I'm sick of their fucking stock photos ]
https://www.missourinet.com/2018/06/22/southeast-…
quoted as being from FTFNYT
To meet a global thirst for American whiskey in recent years, distilleries that make bourbon and rye — and sell it around the world — have sprung up across the country. But this week the European Union applied a 25 percent duty to American whiskey in response to Mr. Trump’s steel tariffs, spiking the prices of the iconic American tipple on the Continent………………………………………
European tariffs on peanut butter will be a blow for the makers of Peter Pan and Skippy spreads, but it is peanut farmers in Republican-leaning states like Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi who could struggle the most..
and yeah, both owners are in WTF happened? mode .
Here's the scam: Companies are applying like mad for waivers. What's that you say, "you didn't contribute to the campaign or you criticized Orange McFuckface?" Sorry about your luck.
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/national/tsuna…
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Went to a talk earlier this week by an economist who wrote a book asking if the US could ever go bankrupt. Asked him if Donald was going to destroy the economy. Without hesitating, he said yes.
Fuck, we're doomed.
How….comforting.
|cheer up|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKj5xIp4Kkg
[Not that Bob]
A Trump supporting soybean farmer whose farm has lost ≈ $250k in value due to tariffs: “This isn’t just numbers on a sheet or percentage of trade or dollar value. This is multi-generational American families, your base, that you are now squarely putting into financial peril.”
https://twitter.com/danmericaCNN/status/101012224…
You've got a lot of damned gall!
[54° 40' or
FightDrink?]had the same thought as MikeC!
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1010236254066266114