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Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His voters seem to think it's Taiwan that pays the tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Can't wait to start putting Trump "I DID THAT!" stickers next to $5000 walmart laptops

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I'm considering placing a bulk order for these stickers: https://cnliberalism.org/store/p/my-tariffs-did-that-sticker

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But that would be low!
And really the president doesn't have the power to set prices. Trump can't magically make eggs cheaper! And so on. Chatgpt what is the best open source open hardware guillotine plans?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

He doesn't have the ability to directly set prices, no. He could massively subsidise things he wants to be cheaper. Do you think that's going to happen though?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But that wouldn't make billions of chicken appear into existence. The eggs would be cheaper and there would shortsges.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I'm not sure I'm following your train of thought....

Are there currently egg shortages? Subsidising something doesn't mean there's less of it, means the government pays someone in the production stream to keep prices low. Like what happens with gasoline just about everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The official story is they killed 100 nillion chicken due to bird flu. This caused a shortage of eggs, the shortage caused the price to raise until it was so high they became unaffordable to some people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Gotcha. Well, has there not been actually a lot of bird flu in the States? Pretty sure there was.