1 minute ago, CallumWK said:

it is clear that in a few years pensioners will not have access to medicare anymore. 

 

Yes, unfortunately women refusing to have children is going to be a problem. 

 

Without new taxpayers no welfare state, so sad, but so true.

1 minute ago, Cameroni said:

 

Yes, unfortunately women refusing to have children is going to be a problem. 

 

Without new taxpayers no welfare state, so sad, but so true.

Don't think many Muslim women are refusing to have children.

5 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Nope, let someone read the big ugly bill for you, as it is clear that in a few years pensioners will not have access to medicare anymore. 

Liar. 

3 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Yes, unfortunately women refusing to have children is going to be a problem. 

 

Without new taxpayers no welfare state, so sad, but so true.

 

What that has to do with pensioners being denied Medicare?
 

2 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Don't think many Muslim women are refusing to have children.

Demography is destiny. 

Just now, Yellowtail said:

Demography is destiny. 

Sadly.

8 hours ago, CallumWK said:

I recall that when Trump announced his tariff war, he claimed it would reduce the debt of the US, but now it turns out that the tariffs are actually used to cover additional losses, created by the tariff war.

While it is a good thing that they support the farmers, if there were no tariffs, the farmers wouldn't be in debt and wouldn't need subsidies.

Winning? No way!!

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tariffs-could-fund-bailout-041538385.html

 

Trump tariffs could fund bailout for US farmers, agriculture secretary tells FT

 

(Reuters) - The Trump administration is drawing up plans to use tariff revenue to fund a program to support U.S. farmers, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins.

 

The report follows pressure from farm groups after China stopped purchases of soybeans from the U.S. in their tit-for-tat trade dispute, and as tariffs have pushed up costs for fertiliser, machinery and other imported inputs.

 

 

n 2023, US farm subsidy payments, including commodity support and disaster relief programs, totaled over $16 billion from major subsidy programs, with a significant portion going to a few key states like Texas and Kansas. Total federal government agricultural subsidies were approximately $10.972 billion for the year according to Federal Reserve data. Key programs included Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC), which support commodity prices and revenues, and programs that helped farmers affected by the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFA

As I thought. the government has subsidized farmers for years, so this is nothing new, yes China has shut the gate on USA soya, now getting it from Brazil, that will hurt a lot of farmers.

But the subsidy they get is a lot more than farmers in a lot of other countries.

4 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Liar. 

 

What’s in the ‘One Big Beautiful Ugly Bill’ for Older Americans?

 

https://www.aarp.org/government-elections/budget-bill-older-americans/

 

Medicaid eligibility

 

The bill sets new work requirements that can disqualify a person from enrolling in Medicaid and create additional red tape to show compliance.

 

 

Medicaid-eligible adults ages 19 to 64 who are applying for coverage, or who received coverage through the ACA expansion of Medicaid, would be required to work at least 80 hours per month or fulfill similar criteria (for example, participating in job training or community service). An

 

“This creates a steep coverage cliff for those in their 50s and early 60s — particularly for those nearing retirement or working part-time — who may be left with no affordable coverage option at all,” LeaMond wrote in her June 29 letter.

9 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

What that has to do with pensioners being denied Medicare?
 

 

Isn't it obvious?

 

Medicare is funded primarily through federal payroll taxes. Ergo, no new workers, not sufficient taxes to maintain services for pensioners.

3 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Isn't it obvious?

 

Medicare is funded primarily through federal payroll taxes. Ergo, no new workers, not sufficient taxes to maintain services for pensioners.

 

You mean the pensioners they have contributed to it all their working life, will get refused.

 

Sounds like MAGA

12 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

What that has to do with pensioners being denied Medicare?
 

You are lying. No one that is qualified is being denied Medicare.

 

Everyone that is not committing fraud gets it. 

Just now, CallumWK said:

 

You mean the pensioners they have contributed to it all their working life, will get refused.

 

Sounds like MAGA

No, it sounds like you are lying

9 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

What’s in the ‘One Big Beautiful Ugly Bill’ for Older Americans?

 

https://www.aarp.org/government-elections/budget-bill-older-americans/

 

Medicaid eligibility

 

The bill sets new work requirements that can disqualify a person from enrolling in Medicaid and create additional red tape to show compliance.

 

 

Medicaid-eligible adults ages 19 to 64 who are applying for coverage, or who received coverage through the ACA expansion of Medicaid, would be required to work at least 80 hours per month or fulfill similar criteria (for example, participating in job training or community service). An

 

“This creates a steep coverage cliff for those in their 50s and early 60s — particularly for those nearing retirement or working part-time — who may be left with no affordable coverage option at all,” LeaMond wrote in her June 29 letter.

You lie repeatedly that Medicare is being cut, and then you put up an article about Medicaid, a welfare program. 

 

Is that your pants I smell burning? 

5 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

You mean the pensioners they have contributed to it all their working life, will get refused.

 

The first thing you should realise is that the contributions pensioners make are nowhere near enough to cover what they end up claiming. This is the same the world over. Which is why every country has to go to the capital markets to borrow to help finance their pensions system.

 

So in reality pensioners are deferring payment of their own claims, and putting them on the shoulders of future generations.

 

Ergo, if future generations are not sufficient in numbers to carry this burden, this whole system collapses eventually.

 

So women not having enough children is quite a major issue for any country.

2 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

You lie repeatedly that Medicare is being cut, and then you put up an article about Medicaid, a welfare program. 

 

Is that your pants I smell burning? 

 

I knew it was a mistake to click on show this post.

I'm not an American so I confused Medicare with Medicaid.

Shall I remind you again of your MULTIPLE posts last week where you had to admit that you are to stupid to read a simple text?

 

And other troll, who claims to be an ex lawyer, and an expert in about every other profession one can think about, added to the list.

Makes reading of the forum really much better

6 hours ago, bubblegum said:

So he can subsidise the farmers like his first turn just like the OP says. 

The US has subsidized farmers since the 1930s. 

4 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

I knew it was a mistake to click on show this post.

I'm not an American so I confused Medicare with Medicaid.

Shall I remind you again of your MULTIPLE posts last week where you had to admit that you are to stupid to read a simple text?

You should not comment on topics you know nothing about. 

1 minute ago, CallumWK said:

 

I knew it was a mistake to click on show this post.

I'm not an American so I confused Medicare with Medicaid.

Fair enough. You were not lying about Medicare being cut, you were mistaken about Medicare being cut, and this is you apologizing. 

 

1 minute ago, CallumWK said:

Shall I remind you again of your MULTIPLE posts last week where you had to admit that you are to stupid to read a simple text?

 

Sure, link to (too?) them. 

 

I make a lot of mistakes, post them up, and I'll happily apologize like you did for being wrong. 

 

1 minute ago, TedG said:

You should not comment on topics you know nothing about. 

What does that leave? 

32 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

What’s in the ‘One Big Beautiful Ugly Bill’ for Older Americans?

 

https://www.aarp.org/government-elections/budget-bill-older-americans/

 

Medicaid eligibility

 

The bill sets new work requirements that can disqualify a person from enrolling in Medicaid and create additional red tape to show compliance.

 

 

Medicaid-eligible adults ages 19 to 64 who are applying for coverage, or who received coverage through the ACA expansion of Medicaid, would be required to work at least 80 hours per month or fulfill similar criteria (for example, participating in job training or community service). An

 

“This creates a steep coverage cliff for those in their 50s and early 60s — particularly for those nearing retirement or working part-time — who may be left with no affordable coverage option at all,” LeaMond wrote in her June 29 letter.

This is what the ACA is for. 

15 minutes ago, TedG said:

You should not comment on topics you know nothing about. 

 

Talking to yourself again?

5 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Talking to yourself again?

No, I'm talking to you.   You need to stay in your lane. 

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

 

Well the people who work at Cadillac are consumers too.

"Fordism" has been over for a long time! Keep up to date! 

1 minute ago, candide said:

"Fordism" has been over for a long time! Keep up to date! 

 

What if companies like Cadillac open a store where employees can spend their salaries on food and household items?

2 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

Well, of course, but if you can afford a brand new Hyundai car, then you should be paying more, arguably, to make American manufacturing great again.

 

Or, you can opt for a beautiful Cadillac which suddenly looks a lot cheaper.

 

Up to you, Ka.

There no fully US car. Only around one third of a Cadillac car's components is made in the US and Canada. 

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/how-much-of-your-car-is-really-made-in-the-usa/

 

So it means that Cadillac will have to pay tariffs for 2/3 of its components (by value). It also means that Cadillac cars that are exported will cost more, compared to cars assembled in another country.

 

Same for other producers.

5 minutes ago, candide said:

There no fully US car. Only around one third of a Cadillac car's components is made in the US and Canada. 

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/how-much-of-your-car-is-really-made-in-the-usa/

 

So it means that Cadillac will have to pay tariffs for these components. It also means that Cadillac cars that are exported will cost more, compared to cars assembled in another country.

 

Same for other producers with a significant share of exports.

Cadillac will likely get a carveout, and if they don't, the duty on imported parts will probably not be much in the total cost. 

 

Any parts imported for export, will absolutely be exempt.

 

They can bring that work stateside 

 

 

1 hour ago, candide said:

There no fully US car. Only around one third of a Cadillac car's components is made in the US and Canada.

 

Well of course, all cars are like this these days. 

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

Cadillac will likely get a carveout, and if they don't, the duty on imported parts will probably not be much in the total cost. 

 

Any parts imported for export, will absolutely be exempt.

 

They can bring that work stateside 

 

 

In other words, TACO! 😆

30 minutes ago, candide said:

In other words, TACO! 😆

No, in other words, the whole idea of tariffs is to benefit domestic producers. 

 

They will give then a time frame to repatriate the work or they will start being taxed, a bit more each year.