What is the goal of The Trump Tariffs?

Hans Blaster said:

O groovy, a "film" by misinformed nutters. Pass.

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The Corporation (2003 film) - Wikipedia

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The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan and filmmaker Harold Crooks, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary examines the modern corporation. Bakan wrote the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Powerduring the filming of the documentary.

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The documentary shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution meant to affect specific public functions, to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person. The documentary concentrates mostly upon corporations in North America, especially in the United States. One theme is its assessment of corporate personhood, as a result of an 1886 case in the Supreme Court of the United States in which a statement by Chief Justice Morrison Waite[nb 1] led to corporations as "persons" having the same rights as human beings, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Through vignettes and interviews, The Corporation examines and criticizes corporate business practices. The film's assessment is demonstrated using the diagnostic criteria in the DSM-IV. Robert D. Hare, a University of British Columbia psychology professor and FBI consultant, compares the profile of the contemporary profitable business corporation to that of a clinically diagnosed psychopath. The Corporation attempts to compare the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave with what it claims are the DSM-IV's symptoms of psychopathy, e.g., the callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, the reckless disregard for the safety of others, the deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect the law.

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Richard T said:

There are twin deficits in the usa. Those from trade and those from a federal govt that spends more than it takes in. Seems like two seperate topics but yes the usa sometimes is manages by a elite consensus.

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During the Civil War (1861-1865), President Lincoln needed money to finance the War from the North. The Bankers were going to charge him 24% to 36% interest. Lincoln was horrified and went away greatly distressed, for he was a man of principle and would not think of plunging his beloved country into a debt that the country would find impossible to pay back.


Eventually President Lincoln was advised to get Congress to pass a law authorizing the printing of full legal tender Treasury notes to pay for the War effort. Lincoln recognized the great benefits of this issue. At one point he wrote:

"... (we) gave the people of this Republic the greatest blessing they have ever had -- their own paper money to pay their own debts..."

Lincoln printed 400 million dollars worth of Greenbacks (the exact amount being $449,338,902), money that he delegated to be created, a debt-free and interest-free money to finance the War. It served as legal tender for all debts, public and private. He printed it, paid it to the soldiers, to the U.S. Civil Service employees, and bought supplies for war.
Shortly after that happened, "The London Times" printed the following: "If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. That govern-ment must be destroyed, or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe." In retaliation

After this was published in "The London Times", the British Government, which was controlled by the London and other European Bankers, moved to support the Confederate South, hoping to defeat Lincoln and the Union, and destroy this government which they said had to be destroyed.

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Thereafter, Congress revoked the Green-back Law and enacted, in its place, the National Banking Act. The national banks were to be privately owned and the national bank notes they issued were to be interest bearing. The Act also provided that the Greenbacks should be retired from circulation as soon as they came back to the Treasury in payment of taxes.

In 1972, the United States Treasury Department was asked to compute the amount of interest that would have been paid if that 400 million dollars would have been borrowed at interest instead of being issued by Abraham Lincoln. They did some computations, and a few weeks later, the United States Treasury Department said the United States Government saved 4 billion dollars in interest because Lincoln had created his own money.

The Federal Reserve Act

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FAITH-IN-HIM said:

President Trump today imposed a 35% tariff on Canada. This must be a welcome news for Canadians, who had been hesitant to support President Trump’s strategy regarding China. With this new 35% tariff in place, it is expected that Canadians become more supportive of the U.S. approach toward addressing concerns with China.

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FAITH-IN-HIM said:

That might be the difference between Canadians and Americans. We Americans always unite when a foreign country threatens us, no matter our political or cultural differences.

It appears that some Canadians do not mind when a president of foreign country humiliating their citizens. How lucky to be Canadian! With fellow citizen like this, who needs enemies?

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FAITH-IN-HIM said:

Perhaps Ontario's education system has declined to the point that students no longer learn Ottawa is part of Canada and resident of Ottawa are also Canadian.

If Canadian citizens in Ontario dislike those fellow citizen in Ottawa and want a foreign leader to embarrass their fellow Canadians, the nation may be so divided that its existence is called into question.

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Akita Suggagaki said:

"I think the administration is going to have a really hard time trying to convince the American people that some of the price increases they're seeing are because of other factors not related to the tariffs," Durante said in an interview with CBC News.

"I just don't think most people are going to be fooled by that," he said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/donald-trump-tariffs-cost-consumers-businesses-us-1.7600966?cmp=rss&fbclid=IwY2xjawL_FBdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHuP1r0psNa97ySH862MBjPCYlOhfSYQPrZBOcwRYO8ea6BOpegSKbEpONz8D_aem_QuU6Ux6sApLlt62BGUIHMA

O I think they will.

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