The IP is often held offshore. Take Apple as an example, or rather booked overseas. The Apple stores in the UK once ran at a loss because they had to pay AIO (registered in Ireland) a premium to use the Apple branding in their stores. Such firms are so cash rich that they have a clear incentive to rip off Ireland/UK/etc because they only have to pay proper taxes when they repatriate the money to the USA, and they aren't going to do that until a president offers a tax holiday.
Will Trump deliver what he has promised?
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The IP is often held offshore. Take Apple as an example, or rather booked overseas. The Apple stores in the UK once ran at a loss because they had to pay AIO (registered in Ireland) a premium to use the Apple branding in their stores. Such firms are so cash rich that they have a clear incentive to rip off Ireland/UK/etc because they only have to pay proper taxes when they repatriate the money to the USA, and they aren't going to do that until a president offers a tax holiday.
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If Musk joins the Trump administration he will be obliged to sell shares in his companies. He gets to do so without paying any capital gains taxes...
It's a good point. Even when watching our very own Dragon's Den how often does a dragon say along the lines of 'you're paying how much to have it made in the UK?!? First thing we need to do is source a manufacturer in China ...'
We can't have it all ways in the west, although some seem to think we can and should.
Will be interesting to see how far he actually gets with this, I suspect not very ...Trump reckons he will kick out 15 million illegal immigrants
Apparently there are 1.5 million illegals in the US who have some type of court order against them ordering them to leave the country seems that these court orders have not been enforced
On the radio news this morning an interview with some lady who illegally entered the states from Honduras 25 years ago
She had to have an interpreter as should could not speak English
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No all the lawyers will be clamouring to get there snouts in the trough with endless legal challenges
But hey ho trump will
Give it a go and fair play to the bloke
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As are his followers if they swallow stuff that he spouts
No, I support him because he really upsets liberals. Only reason.
None of the aims in your list would affect me in the slightest. Surely you don't pay much attention to manifesto 'promises'? See Starmer for details.
The EU is putting a 17-34% tariff on Chinese EV's, that's on top of the existing 10% tariff.
The EU is (or was) Chinas biggest export market for EVs in 2023, some 400,000 units.
However these are European brands off shoring production to China, like Volvo, Smart car
So increasing tariffs hurts European brands.
USA has 100% tariff on EVs
Biden did it in Sept
Tesla have a huge plant in Germany, I wonder what Elon Musk will make of a trade war….his exports could suffer
US federal bank has given Trump the middle finger, they won’t let him take control of interest rates, so they can keep,a lid on his economy bolox
Trump will burn the economy red hot for 4 years knowing there is a delay before it crashes and burns, fickos like Filly will fall for the fake short termism
Trump will burn the economy red hot for 4 years knowing there is a delay before it crashes and burns, fickos like Filly will fall for the fake short termism
Is the EU doing it on the promise of lowering taxes for Europeans though? Or for "bringing jobs back"?
Survival.
Reading about VW I doubt there's much chance of bringing Jobs back. The German car manufacturers were against the tariffs on the basis their exports to China would be hit.
There seems to be a crisis in the auto manufacturing world brought about by the rush into EV's,, some large manufacturers will go down I'm sure.
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We often don't agree, but the gist of this, I think is right.
I heard that. The translator was the daughter, born in the USA.. Trump going to split the family up? The mother was contributing to society.
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Trump's economics are fantasy. Through the rambles he calls his "weave" he can pinpoint isolated situations which sound like they work, until you ask things like, " Where are you going to get the US workers from if all the immigrants have gone. There's always a shortage of labour in the US. You're making it worse."
All the programs he wants to develop, need staff he hasn't got. If he sends plane loads "back" to Venezuela, that country has said they won't let the people off the plane.
Trump is a deluded arrogant ignorant man with a personality problem - his ego.
For decades, US GI's have gone in around the world, to make things better by killing some of the locals - Korea, VIetnam and on and on. Truman doctrine and all that. They've been paying most for NATO, they've been a dustbin for the dregs of migrants along with the rest. They DO have the best arms. They DO have good, if not the best, intelligence services tracking our mutual enemies' efforts.
Now people are asking why - why should the USA take that position, and pay for all of it? Their national debt is hardly a secret or difficult to understand.
Harris was weak on everything.
Immigration "don't come" !!. Pathetic. WHy not put together a plan to clamp down on further unwanted immigration , screen everyone etc etc, immediately get rid of the bad ones. We heard nothing much.
Economy - why not stress what was inherited and how much better it has got? Inflation is way down.
Walz's record on the various riots was a joke, no credibility there.
Like us they have endless food banks, people in work who can't feed their kids. Americans don'l see themselves expecting them any more than we do.
Harris' efforts were measly. Priice gouging she went on about - but couldn't cite any.
All she offered was more of the same policies.
Unfortunately,
because I really don't like Trump. The first thng I value is common decency. He doesn't have that.
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