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Do Thai factories make Corvettes, Mustangs, Chargers and F250's?

First, a question. Then a comment. The question: Do you have a source for that 9% number? The comment: Maybe the average effective tariff rate is so low because nobody in Thailand can afford to buy the stuff with a higher rate. Like cars with an 80% tariff (plus other taxes that add up to about 200% on top of the selling price)

Your username seems age appropriate. Kudos.

How many of them are zero dollar factories? Which is a misnomer. It does cost something to set up a factory to put stuff in boxes. I'm a trade show junkie so I attend a lot of the shows at BITEC and I'm familiar with a lot of Thai businesses. I'm not denying their capabilities. But I'm also aware of a lot of trans shipping entities. And, like Forrest Gump... That's all I have to say about that.

$1.3T would be an improvement from the average $2.02 T annual from Q1 2021 to Q1 2025. Q1 2021: $28,132 B Q1 2025: $36,214 B Delta = $8,082 B = $2,020 B per year. Federal Debt: Total Public Debt (GFDEBTN) | FRED | St. Louis Fed https://fred.stlouisfed.org/

This is getting good. From the NY Times: “Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people, he and aides confirmed. Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence,” The New York Times reported. “Even after Mr. Biden made that decision, one former aide said, the Bureau of Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates, resulting in small changes to the list. Rather than ask Mr. Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version through the autopen, which they saw as a routine procedure, the aide said,” according to The Times. Comment from The Daily Caller News: In another instance, small changes were made or names were added to the list but Biden wasn’t notified of each adjustment, the NYT reported. Instead, his staff would run the final version through the autopen, rather than asking Biden’s permission on each change, an aide told the NYT. Such a procedure was routine, the source added. I'm still wondering how many pardons his minions sold and snuck in without Biden even knowing.

Let me quote your own words: Trump is an oaf who doesn't understand high school-level economics DT has a bizarre obsession with trade deficits. This has no basis in reality The stupidity of DT's position can be seen in the Botswana tariffs This is flat-out irrational, and everybody should stop pretending there is any sense behind DT's actions.

And I think most Americans are willing to pay more for imported crap if it means more American jobs, a lower trade deficit and more revenue from tariffs. Or buy less imported crap that we don't need. That'll easily offset any price increases (for those who understand that inflation and price increases are not the same thing).

I'd suggest out of sight of the tents they will set up to fine foreigners, like they do on Sukhumvit between Nana and Asoke in Bangkok. In the hundreds of times I've been there, I have never seen them fining a Thai person. Though I have often seen Thais throwing butts and other trash in that area. But dozens of foreigners. Personally, I think this is a cash grab, perhaps to make up for falling arrivals. But I am rather cynical that way.

This is why God invented life jackets. I bought several of my own in Thailand because many of the public offerings were either horrid and smelly or non-existent. I'd toss them in the pickup if my plans included water sports or ferry rides.

And your point would be?

It's Time magazine. They're trying to explain it to people with a 4th grade reading level who catch up on their news sitting on the crapper. But you go ahead and keep parroting it if you want. That makes you one of the "many others" Edit: And I didn't even mention Time's tendency to indoctrinate readers as opposed to educating them.

That all sounds rather 3rd person. I'd be more interested in what he actually said, especially given the Pharma funded MSM's recent tendency to misquote people that step away from the accepted narrative. Then I'd be interested in the study that nobody probably did comparing the vaccine uptake before and after his visit. Along with a count of how many people actually missed their scheduled vaccines in the time between his visit and the surge in cases. Four months you say? Vaccine hesitance doesn't work that fast.

I'd be interested in seeing that video. Or even a transcript.

I'd refrain from commenting if that was my level of understanding of global trade.

That's good info, but all I see is food. How about the 80% tariff on cars, added to the other fees that basically triple the landed cost of a US car into Thailand?

So how is that RFK's fault? And on an aside, what's the incidence rate of autism in Samoan kids? Maybe that would be a good data point to study?

And he unvaccinated all the kids who hadn't been vaccinated in the previous decades?

I don't question their ability to get a better tariff deal. I question their will and their motives.

I keep UHT around for my coffee. In the USA, I binned more milk than I ever got to use. It goes bad long before I drink that much coffee. I'm not much for actually drinking milk.

It's fun to watch him stomp his little lefty feet and huff and puff.

I guess the biggest question is whether Thailand will actually make stuff, or just repackage stuff.

Do you really think the list price is the actual amount of money changing hands? What about government subsidies, incentives and bonuses?

Perhaps that's because Americans know you can't decrease it any more? We're satisfied with the current level of pretty much zilch. As opposed to the wide ass open border of previous years. Nothing burger. Edit: I'm referring, of course, to illegal immigration. The vast majority of Americans are in favor of legal immigration. The way it's being done now...

No. DEI is assigning a 5'6" 120# woman in a position where she may be called on to be a human shield for a 6'2" fat guy. The woman was nothing but heart and courage in this picture, and I respect and commend her for that. But she was in the wrong job. Don't even get me started on the one that couldn't get her gun back in its holster after several tries.