That will be a good thing. A lot of onerous regulations are local ones in Las Vegas. Trump could get rid of wage and hour regulations. Overtime is particularly onerous How about eliminating overtime if acceptable to the worker, and eliminating minimum wages

Of course. Trump is a speedbump in the globalist agenda...again. Look at how screwed up they got stuff just over the past 4 years!

Trumps plan to cut 10 regulations for every new reg will level some of the playing field. The rest is just saving money by having slave labor produce it..

I think we all pay too much attention to government these days. Government is not our lives. Although the politicians would like us to think so.

... and not to be rewarded for making bad choices (or for being a sociopathic parasite.)

Overall, I don't disagree...
Until the medical system gets people addicted to opiods. Then cuts them off.
I've lost family and friends to these drugs.

FWIW, it's not the drugs. It's the ability the government has to make people feel disconnected.

Rats in a happy environment don't get addicted to cocaine. But put them alone in a cage and they all do.

If you've truly met someone struggling to stop their pain... They are not thinking straight enough and quite frankly once they have gone so far, death is inevitable and often welcome. Even if it just stops the pain.

We've got lots of problems... Hating each other should not be one of them.

But freedoms must also include the freedom to make bad choices.

Trump will increase tariffs and what I see happening is prices will rise by the amount of the tariffs and the governments will reap the tariff money as a new national tax that they will spend on new programs, and states will reap benefit by collecting more sales taxes on the increased prices charged In the end, customers will either pay more for the same items, or simply buy fewer of them.

Interestingly enough a lot of what we might consider American businesses that we could purchase from buy a lot of parts and subassemblies from China. In the 1980’s my former businesses were vertically integrated. We bought nothing from China! But the regulations on workers and environment just made vertical integration impossible. Not to mention inflation and money printing by our government, as well as dropping the protections of the gold standard.

The 25% tariffs Trump and Biden put in China did nothing really given that in our experience Chinese items cost 1/3 of what items manufactured in USA cost. Tariffs would have to be 300% to bring manufacturing back to the USA and make it uneconomic to buy from China and ship the items here

First of all, our government shouldn’t be making drugs illegal that people willingly want to take. That just brings in organized crime to reap the higher prices. Secondly, people should be more responsible in terms of. Putting things in their bodies that they don’t verify the actual purity of what they take one way or another

This will bring manufacturers back to America. Jobs businesses and freedom. Your small business will never grow as you just use other manufactured parts from China to reassemble. I remember you saying the same thing when Trump tarrifs were implemented in 2017. You had 8 workers , but our economy thrived.

No they are not. They would be called taxes if they were. They do however potentially lower taxes.

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So, China helping to eradicate 100,000 Americans/year isn't your problem. I get that.

But it IS Trumps Problem. and I am glad he is working on it.

Quick question. If you knew that your companies profits via China were leading to 100 of those people dying per day... Would you change your mind, or is it still not your problem.

Back to the Objectivist Point. You are seeking your own goals. And Trump his seeking his. If your goals are a net negative on society. You don't have to care. And if Trumps goals are a net negative on you. Does he have to care? (Honestly Curious, I am not suggesting you become a collectivist. And I am assuming Trump negotiating on our behalf is not making him a Collectivist because he is acting on his values)

What is he going to negotiate? Getting china to stop selling precursors to fentalyl? Frankly, I dont care about fentanyl. If we made all those drugs legal, the prices would collapse and the cartels would stop promoting them. Some druggies might die, but the solution is to NOT buy drugs from your local drug dealer.

To the extent that china is subsidizing the items I bubuy from them, horrah !! I and my customers are ggetting a really good deal. If course, the problem is that WE arent on a gold standard, so continual bubuying from other countries should result in making the US dollar worth less vs the other countries' currencies. We arent on the gold standard, so the system isnt self correcting.

Suddenly I am HAPPY Trump did not take office in 2020...

I think he needed the Hero's Journey that we got.
I KNOW the country needed it.
I KNOW MAGA needed it.

You are 1,000% correct. Only if we educate enough people as to the Pure Destructruction government HAS BEEN and WILL BE, unless We The People vote with Conscious towards these things.

The goal should not just be to fire 80% and prove they were wasteful. The Goal needs to be to CHANGE how things are down, to automate them, simplify them. And build a MAGA MOTTO that includes automating government out of it's growth phase and into its reduction phase.

We must wake up! That the government doing less, and we individually doing more is always the better answer.

I am, to this point, thinking FEMA should be based on GoFundThis... Where Americans speak by sending their money to fund it, which then allows FEMA to use a "Multiplier". (So that HI and NC would have seen a generous flow, but NOT for housing illegals or Fake Asylum seekers)

Let me add that I am 100% Okay with paying more if it gives Trump the leverage to negotiate.

And this is DOUBLY True for Antibiotics!
I find it PURE Insanity that the USA did not maintain the infrastructure/ability to produce ALL of the antibiotics we could need during a war...
We are literally going to have a hard wake up call.

I don't disagree about WHO pays the tariff. I do disagree about the PAIN of the tariff.

It IS felt by China. In many cases we know the Chinese govt funds these companies to keep the Overly Competitive, to employ their people. not caring about the wages their people get, because once they are the last producers, the prices creep up.

again, it's a tool. Like a gun. You can shoot yourself in the foot with it. But you can negotiate with it as well.

The same thing can be said on taxing corporations. They don't ultimately pay the taxes, the push it into the price of their products.

It's literally the same thing, but without the leverage for negotiation, IMO.

The way I see it, you could be addicted to the drug of Cheap Chinese materials. And for me, this is where Marketing comes in. Sell on being made in the USA and sourced in the USA and not on price. also, if ALL of your competitors face the same problems, then you all have to raise your prices.

Finally, I would personally consider buying 20%-50% more than I need each month, for the potential, while simultaneously seeing if we could outsource from S. Korea or some other country.

This could turn out to be an opportunity. At least that's how I believe Trump would interpret it. And if you did get a new source... You would reduce the support we send our Mortal Enemies who don't care how many Americans are dying from their Fentanyl.

If Trump reduced overhead costs and regulation in USA, it might actually help. Also getting rid of deficit spending could stop inflation in its tracks. Tariffs will just cause prices to rise for USA consumers

A tariff simply hurts the consumer in the country that imposes the tariff. Rather than pay the tariff. Consumers will just stop making those purchases. In the case of a 60% tariff on china’s imports our small company would just lay off 8 employees and close

As much as I love where he wants to take us, I’m afraid it is just going to be a four year pause on our march toward global tyranny.
I am however hoping I’m wrong and Americans will wake up and end the madness.

I appreciate your enthusiasm. And I hope you're right. This could be epic. Two years. Extreme measures (like immediate elimination of some agencies that never should have existing)...it could happen. Tonight I will lift a beer in silence with the hope that this happens...

How Trudeau is still vertical and/or not behind bars is beyond me. That guy is almost as bad as Newsom would be as President...

Exactly. I tell my liberal friends (actully only one) that don't get it yet, that "It's all about the children". That confuses the hell out of them (him).

Time will tell.