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Sure. The Constitution expressly grants Congress the “power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises…” and also “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations… .” But during World War I, Congress began to cede some of that authority when it gave the president power to regulate trade with enemies. After the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill helped deepen the Great Depression, lawmakers in 1930 began the process of giving power over tariffs to presidents. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/08/politics/tariffs-trump-power-constitution-congress/index.html Even those members of Congress who are pursuing action KNOW Congress granted this power to the Executive. They have no leg to stand on.

Of course it could be worse, they could call us "long nose monkeys", like in Indonesia.

Dream on. Even those pursuing these claims know there's no chance of success.

I guess we shouildn't get upset because Thailand's roads are so safe already, a few drunk Ukrainians more on the roads makes no difference, right? Children could have been killed. Deport this draft dodger and his British cheerleader. Thailand will be the better for it! Zero tolerance for drunk driving. And their apologists.

Complete fantasy. It is well established that Congress has passed its power to impose tariffs to the executive. This has been established for over 100 years. Non-story. Zero chances of success. No way will the Supreme Court interfere in this.

Another drunk defending Ukrainians getting blotto on Whiskey and then going for a joydrive. Great. Now our reputation as farang criminals will get even worse. Thanks a lot.

Quite a lot. You're in Thailand, so you should greet people in Thai, not some Chinese, Korean or Japanese. Your work colleagues probably think you're a bit of a dick behind your back. Imagine if you greeted your British work colleagues with "Guten Tag", that would get you fired in some City offices. it's not about "heritage issues", it's about respecting the country you live in.

Exactly right. The real nightmare would be Chinese takeover. A nation with the in-built tendency to lawlessness and criminality, some would say outright cruelty, with a real chip on their shoulder due to WWII and perceived slights by the West and Japanese, a nation like this obtaining military and economic power to occupy the world, it's a total nightmare scenario. And occupation by the Chinese would make a Japanese occupation look like a sweet weekend visit by comparison. We should all pray that Trump's courageous fight to bring down China succeeds.

So another East European fool aggravated a Thai by thinking he was clever and saying "Ni Hao", thereby making all foreigners look like idiots. Deport all East Europeans from Thailand today and 80% of problems would go away. But yes, farang, is obviously derogatory.. Notice the difference, a Russian says Ni Hao because he's a stupid fool, but the deragotary word farang is used with knowing intent.

Deportation would be justified. People like this are ruining it for all of us. Why do you think farang have this reputation as being lawless criminals? People like this. Drinks whiskey and goes for a drive. Then complains about being in a jail cell. I completely understand the Thai police officer telling the gf her bf is a criminal. He is! No wonder he wanted to deport him. I say let's do it, let's get all these undesirables out of Thailand. The Thais will love it, Thailand will be a better place, and it will be better for us Farang with less of these lawless drunks as our reputation will improve. Everyone wins.

I would much rather take my chances walking through the projects in those American cities, than travelling to remote and rural parts of China. At least in Harlem and Detroit the police would actually come. In rural China bandits are the police, they're actually in control. There's a public security vacuum in rural China. Banditry and crime flourishes there to an extent that we in the West cannot even imagine: https://jamestown.org/program/rural-chinas-public-security-vacuum/

Neither Japan, South Korea or Germany have ever dumped overproduction on their trading partners to the extent that the Chinese have. When it comes to dumping, destroying national industries in trading partners' domestic markets, the Chinese are in a class all by themselves.

Ukrainians are becoming a huge problem in Thailand. They get drunk, as they do in their homeland, and then drive around. That's disgraceful. People could have been killed. Why not deport such people?

And even so the domestic Chinese market cannot not absorb the entire over production of Chinese cars, which are flooding most of SE Asia, as we can see in Thailand. Of course this was a special case, since most Chinese were still using scooters and bicycles not so long ago, and only recently levelled up to use cars, so there was a huge growth gap. But even so China's domestic market cannot absorb the massive overproduction of cars the Chinese recklessly allow, they are exporting masses of these cars abroad.

I think it's more likely the Chinese keep the true number of their numerous executions a state secret because if the true extent of Chinese actual execution numbers were known it would be a major embarassment to the communist party. Why is the Chinese state forced to use such an extraordinarily high number of executions? Somehow I doubt it's because the Chinese are so "law-abiding" as Lacessit has claimed. Crime is rampant in China. I remember talking to an American in Grand Cayman who owned several factories in remote and rural parts of China. He admonished me that if I ever go to these parts to ensure I have bodyguards, saying he always hires bodyguards, because these remote Chinese regions are lawless and full of bandits and travel there is absolutely unsafe. Law-abiding citizens indeed.

Complete nonsense, Trump is well within the law: Even members of the House of Representatives conceded that this power to impose tariffs was given to the executive. Even those who want to take that power away from Trump agree it was given to him: “It’s time that Congress restores its authorities here,” Bacon said on CBS News over the weekend. “We gave some of that power to the executive branch, and I think in hindsight, that was a mistake.” The Constitution expressly grants Congress the “power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises…” and also “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations… .” But during World War I, Congress began to cede some of that authority when it gave the president power to regulate trade with enemies. After the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill helped deepen the Great Depression, lawmakers in 1930 began the process of giving power over tariffs to presidents. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/08/politics/tariffs-trump-power-constitution-congress/index.html

You mean "payiing" the price as in watching Indonesia announce they will increase trade withe the US by 19 billion and ease restrictions on US goods? Looks like Trump's tariffs are working very well. No country is in that position, alas, since the American market is the richest in the entire world and every country wants a piece of that market. Hence, rather than saying NO they are lining up to say how they want to buy more US products and give the US better trade access, now that Trump's tariffs are threatening their trade with the US.

Well, Indonesia has just announced that it will increase trade with the US by 19 billion and ease restrictions on US products. Obviously this is in response to Trump's tariffs in an effort to ameliorate US tariffs in the future. Clearly nations are trying to buy more American "stuff" now that Trump is issuing tariffs like confetti. As for China increasing domestic consumer consumption to reduce reliance on exports, everyone knows the extent to which the Chinese overproduce everything. Even housing within China has been overproduced to such an extent that millions of condos are standing empty, ghost towns are all over the place and Chinese house prices are falling. China can't help herself, overproduction is in her DNA, why do you think it is the world's leading export power house? Do you seriously think a domestic market with a PPP that is 79th in the world, ie clearly one of the poorer developed nations, will be able to absorb the monumental Chinese overproduction by itself? I doubt it veyr much.

The Chinese justice system is one of the harshest in the world, issuing more death penalties than any other nation on earth. China issues so many death penalties that, unique among nations, China is forced to keep the true number of executions a state secret, for fear of embarassment. I'm sure that's because the Chinese are such law-abiding sticklers for rules as Lacessit has said.

Target tariffs you say? "Indonesia Announces Hefty Tariffs on Chinese-made Goods The country’s small businesses could “collapse” under a flood of low-cost Chinese goods, the country’s trade minister said. On Friday, a senior Indonesian official announced that the country would impose an import tariff of up to 200 percent on a range of Chinese goods, in order to protect the country’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). “The United States can impose a 200-percent tariff on imported ceramics or clothes; we can do it as well to ensure our MSMEs and industries will survive and thrive,” he said, the Antara news agency reported. Reuters paraphrased Zulfikli by saying that the tariffs would range between 100 and 200 percent and that they “could affect imports of footwear, clothing, textiles, cosmetics and ceramics.” https://thediplomat.com/2024/07/indonesia-announces-hefty-tariffs-on-chinese-made-goods/ Well, targeted maybe, but on a whole "range" of Chinese products, and 200 per cent, quite a lot higher than even US tariffs. One can't blame them, the Chinese have single-handedly destroyed the Indonesian garment industry with their avelanche of cheap products. And it's not just Indonesia either. "Industry groups in Thailand have also expressed increasing concern about an influx of cheap products from China, which they say have greatly hurt sales by domestic producers who are unable to compete. In what it called an urgent measure, the Thai government imposed a 7% value-added tax on all imported products, a change from the previous rule that only collected taxes on imported products that cost more than 1,500 baht ($44). The policy is only in effect from July until December this year to give the government time to study the issue before a longer-term solution can be applied" https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-china-imports-duties-textiles-bd24d26daf70f0f4b917795095854455 Indeed, these countries also have to fear US trade restrictions, which is why Indonesia has just offered the US major concessions such as increasing trade with the US by 19 bililon USD. In fact Trump IS doing a brilliant job in persuading these countries to increase trade with the US.

Indonesia has pledged to increase its imports from the United States by up to US$19 billion, including US$10 billion in energy purchases and make other trade concessions, as part of a broader strategy to stave off looming tariffs from Washington. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3307096/move-avert-trumps-tariff-indonesia-raise-us-imports-us19-billion Doesn't look like the USA is "frozen out". Looks like countries are desperate to trade with the US and falling overthemselves to offer trade concessions to the US. Clearly Trump's tariff strategy is working and enabling the US to secure better conditions from a whole list of countries. Far from being "frozen out" countries are falling over themselves to offer improved and more favourable trading conditions to the US. I wonder why that is. Trump's tariffs maybe, what do you think? https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3307096/move-avert-trumps-tariff-indonesia-raise-us-imports-us19-billion

You don't think the US will be the only ones to slap tariffs on China? The EU have already done so. So have Turkey, Brazil, Indonesia and many others. The Asean countries are worried sick that now that the US has closed its doors there will be an avalanche of cheap Chinese products coming their way. Destroying more of their indigenous industries, the way Chinese dumping has already done in the past. You don't think they will put their own tariffs in place?

Only 400 billion USD. Okay gotcha. Good look finding new buyers for 400 billion USD worth of product. I'm sure that'll be very easy, especially after the Chinese have been dumping their products all over Asian countries and destroying local industries like the Indonesian garment industry. I'm sure Asian countries are so looking forward to paying for 400 billion USD of Chinese products and ruin yet more of their indigenous industries. Oh no wait, they're already worried about the Tsunami of Chinese products about to come their way.

You may want to check the figures, 20% of China's GDP is 3.5 TRILLION USD. Now maybe you come from a very rich family, but for most Chinese peasants that's a lot of fortune cookies.

Boeing was already in trouble anyway, maybe it will be bailed out, maybe it won't, but clearly Boeing has deeper issues than Chinese cancellations. I can't imagine Trump will let them fail, but let's see. Yes, farmers lost a few orders, but overall, the losses the US sustains are a fraction of the losses the Chinese have to bear. Again, they made 400 Billion USD from the US market. They are hurting way more than America. The US may solve the rare earths issue with reycycling technology, it's not a big concern. China has very little. America holds the better cards.