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Originally Posted by welfare  | Ever heard of government cheese? You think I'm joking but it's a real thing.
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06-17-2018, 10:31 AM
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Ok but what's your point?
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06-17-2018, 12:38 PM
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#303 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Originally Posted by mikemhg You're so blindly clouded by your bigotry and support for Trump, that you would actually enjoy seeing the Canadian economy take a hit based on Trumps ridiculous decisions on trade? Why even consider yourself a Canadian, you're treasonous.
If Trump's decisions end up costing Canadians in our pockets, or your own pockets for that matter, why do you continue to support him? It's absolutely bizarre to me. | I don't mind certain sectors taking a short-term hit if it means we can wake up and amend policies from the 70s
do you believe dairy "supply management" is fair?
and instead of trying to work out with our temper-tantrum neighbour, you're gonna stoop down to their level by say you won't be pushed around and retaliate?
ask China how they feel about engaging in the trade war...and they are a substantially larger market
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06-17-2018, 12:45 PM
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#304 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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and doesn't your own argument work against you
'Canadians first' sounds awfully similar to MAGA
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06-17-2018, 01:12 PM
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#305 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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I would buy Canadian milk any day over American milk. There's so much hormones and antibiotics Americans put into their dairy to make it economical.
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06-17-2018, 03:14 PM
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this is no longer true, check WA state regulations they have changed in recent years
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06-17-2018, 03:28 PM
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#307 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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this is no longer true, check WA state regulations they have changed in recent years | what about their meat?
swear every time i go down, even for the day, if i eat a burger or somthing i feel fucking grossss after
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06-17-2018, 06:12 PM
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#308 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by welfare Ok but what's your point? | The US is subsidizing their dairy industry.
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06-17-2018, 10:24 PM
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#309 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by Manic! The US is subsidizing their dairy industry. | Sure, the US offers 'some' subsidies to farmers. Nowhere near the protection of Canadian tariffs though.
And Trump suggested getting rid of all subsidies, tariffs, and barriers
A suggestion that (surprise, surprise) has gone completely underreported by the media.
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06-17-2018, 10:37 PM
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06-17-2018, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by welfare Sure, the US offers 'some' subsidies to farmers. Nowhere near the protection of Canadian tariffs though.
And Trump suggested getting rid of all subsidies, tariffs, and barriers
A suggestion that (surprise, surprise) has gone completely underreported by the media. | unless it has to do with national security right?
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06-17-2018, 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Manic! unless it has to do with national security right? | Was that even discussed? Not to anyone's knowledge.
so when he said all tariffs, we have to assume he meant all tariffs
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06-17-2018, 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by welfare Was that even discussed? Not to anyone's knowledge.
so when he said all tariffs, we have to assume he meant all tariffs | And how would that be good for Canada?
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06-18-2018, 12:09 AM
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protectionist policy is good for our economy
let's get those tar sands to China
say no to US dairy
Make Canada Great Again
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06-18-2018, 02:03 AM
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06-18-2018, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero protectionist policy is good for our economy
let's get those tar sands to China
say no to US dairy
Make Canada Great Again | Canada's best weapon in a US trade-war: invalidating US pharma patents
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/17/the-pharma-wars.html Quote:
First, this is not something we should just lay on the table willy-nilly. This is the trade equivalent of nuclear weapon. However, if Trump hits the auto sector then I'd roll this out immediately. No grace period, no waiting time, no nothing. Within a few minutes of Trump declaring said tariffs on automobiles hit them with this hard, fast, and immediately.
That said, I'd also follow this up (as I said in another post) with allowing Canadian pharmacies to fill US residents' prescriptions as long as they present it to the pharmacist in person. This will have the added benefit of increasing tourism numbers since those people will need to travel here, spend money here on hotels/food/etc, and on the prescription itself.
Now the US could respond by simply confiscating said prescriptions at the border and that's fine. By doing so they are now inconveniencing and aggravating their own citizens which would have a direct impact within the US.
So, this becomes a two-pronged approach. Piss off the LARGE Pharmaceutical lobby by negating their patents AND piss off elderly and ill voters by confiscating their legally purchased prescription medication. Just sit back and watch howls from Congress and the Big Pharma lobby that even Trump won't be able to ignore.
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06-18-2018, 04:09 AM
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06-18-2018, 08:07 PM
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06-18-2018, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero protectionist policy is good for our economy
let's get those tar sands to China
say no to US dairy
Make Canada Great Again | Using which pipeline?
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06-18-2018, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero | LOL good luck America if this goes through.
He's basically alienated the United States from every single country except Russia and North Korea
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06-18-2018, 09:50 PM
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06-18-2018, 10:48 PM
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#323 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by Ch28 LOL good luck America if this goes through.
He's basically alienated the United States from every single country except Russia and North Korea | China is by far the world's top exporter. It exports almost twice as much as US. The US is (significantly) China's number one trade partner.
Why do you think it's America that would lose when it comes to these tariffs?
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06-18-2018, 11:02 PM
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Here's a rough evaluation for Canada.
Doesn't look like the US would fair too terribly.. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tra...ions-1.4710096 Quote:
For Canada, it predicts the economy would shrink 1.8 per cent.
"A ramp-up in protectionism in the U.S. results in a negative impact on growth in each of the NAFTA partners' economies," said the report, co-authored by Scotiabank's Brett House, Juan Manuel Herrera, René Lalonde and Nikita Perevalov.
Under the most aggressively protectionist scenario, the U.S. economy would contract by 0.1 per cent in 2020, the report said. Any of the scenarios in which tariffs are applied would lead to the U.S. growing less robustly than it should.
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06-18-2018, 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by welfare China is by far the world's top exporter. It exports almost twice as much as US. The US is (significantly) China's number one trade partner.
Why do you think it's America that would lose when it comes to these tariffs? | Cheap Chinese goods. You think trump supporters are going to be happy when the prices go up at their local dollar store?
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