Thumbpicker is constantly trying to prove that Australia is the superior country and in this instance even he knows he lost so yeah, he's pissed.
Nothing I said was bullshit - if you believe otherwise there is something wrong with you.
You blocked our beef. We should hit you with ten percent tariffs and block your lamb exports too. You pretend like you have a free trade agreement then apply other standards to American exports. Now you will pay!!!
We have blocked it to keep diseases out because we don't have them here being isolated. That would ruin our cattle exports to other countries that demand disease free beef. That is perfectly reasonable and is covered under the free trade agreement.
I'm not concerned with your opinions on it, only that my income taxes are paid through tariffs against Australia. It doesn't mean I don't love you though.
You may not end up with income taxes but you will have a consumpton tax through higher prices via these tariffs.
I don't buy Australian products so it's a win-win for me. I will benefit by having income taxes reduced or eliminated altogether. Taxes hurt the little people.
It’s not just tariffs on Australia though, you’ll get higher prices on all sorts of things and if you eat McDonald’s you eat some Australian beef. They mix the fattier us beef with ours to get the fat percentage down. Ours is grass fed, yours is grain fed.
Do I eat McDonalds? That's for rich people bro.
Exactly the point though. He wants for us to continue enriching him (at our expense no less) but is angry when we no longer cater to foreign interests. This seems to be the general attitude of every non-American and a good deal of those on the far left.
Wrong again.
I approve of what he is doing. A return to tariffs as revenue instead of taxing citizens while putting foreign interests first is long overdue. Most of the targeted countries are not playing fairly. I guess you feel like you are caught in the crosshairs but I am optimistic about things getting ironed out soon unless you want to try and talk tough like the chinese.
Exactly.
Which makes me trust his opinions on finance, much less global economics, even less.
Except he is not extreme right. Maybe by Australian standards. It roughly translates as “ I don’t like non white people living here and it wouldn’t bother me too much if people could own a Microtech UTX here legally. Possibly even a slingshot”.
Most people that have ETF's aren't speculators. They are in it for the long term. So barring a a fucker like Trump who might collapse the entire financial system the share market goes up in the long term. A lot of people have their retirment savings in index funds like that. Also don't for a second think most superannuation fund managers haven't made massive losses over this as well. Including those managing superannuation in the US.
A) You started it homey. Frankly you’ve been saying things that offend me for a long time, I’ve just been keeping my mouth shut about it because I’m not an insufferable asshole.
