Interesting thing on the news today.. They said that Amazon was all

>> set to show two prices on things, the old price and the 'New' Trump
>> tariff influenced price so people would know what it was costing them.
>> They didn't have the exact details but apparently Bezos was 'contacted'
>> by the White House and, after whatever was said, he backed off on that..

That one was in the news here a few days ago. The claim is that someone

>may have thrown that (showing tariff influenced prices) against a wall to
>see if it would stick, and that Amazon actually had no intention of doing
>so.

That part didn't come out in our news.

(1) it was a good idea and someone should do that;

>(2) with the reaction of the White House, it is as if they know that
>tariffs make stuff cost consumers more, even if they claim tariffs do not.

Increasing what consumers pay for things is what tariffs are designed to do.

There are only 2 reasons for it.

(1) - To make things so expensive to import that a company will start
up to make those things in your country creating jobs/wealth..

That one is what Trump is trying to 'sell' you.. As if your people are
not smart enough to build new businesses if you could make more money
doing that than buying from us.

(2) - Tariffs are a big tax for doing nothing that puts a lot of
money into the gov't coffers to do with what they please.

I think that may have more to do with it..

Also.. Tesla is trying to take our gov't to court over rebates for

>> electric vehicles.

I had heard that one, too, a while back. I am guessing they are trying to

>take Canada to court because they are still claiming they sold that many?

It appears that if it wasn't out and out fraud that maybe they did something like sold the cars to their dealerships, rather than to a buyer, and expect
to get the rebates intended to make electric cars cheaper for people.
The idea was to make electric cars cheaper for people to buy, not cheaper
for dealerships to sit on stock they can't sell.

They were back on again saying that the actual Tesla dealerships, maybe
only about 3 of them, sold about 4 times as many cars as all the many
other dealerships that sell them. Our finance people have basically
left it that they will have to show proof of sale to a buyer for every
car that they expect to get a rebate on. The problem there is that
the honest dealerships are also being blocked from the rebates after
they have already given them to their buyers.

The latest Trump news today..

He wants to reopen Alcatraz Island Prison for the worst offenders..

And he is putting a 100% tariff on movies shown in the USA that are not
made in the USA since they 'constitute a threat to national security'..

What? They may show things he doesn't want US citizens to know ?
Quiet censorship?..

He is also still going on about the 51st State and how he 'gives'
Canada $200 Billion a year to keep us from going bankrupt..
He said he doesn't want our cars or our electricity or our oil.

It would be fun to see how fast that would change if we just suddenly
stopped selling those things to the USA..

On Tuesday there is supposed to be a meeting with Trump and Carney
at the White House. It will be interesting to see how that goes.

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