Wishnitwas1998

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Y'all can't have it both ways.

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I have never claimed that consumers wouldn't have to pay for at least part of the tariffs. It's a political talking point and a dumb one at that but we see every day that some voters are naive enough to believe it

The point of tariffs isn't to somehow shield consumers from their increased cost but to incentivize domestic companies to manufacture more products and employ more people at home with higher demand due to their goods being cheaper than foreign, tariffed goods. Whether that is ever going to work out in a benefit to domestic consumers/workers remains to be seen but it obviously is not something that can happen over night. After all the bullshite that has not been tried to help the American worker it was nice to see this given shot even if it ends up not working out. I imagine like most things we as a country won't have the patience to wait for any true benefits to emerge

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have seen several companies saying a portion of the refunds will be used to keep prices lower, at least temporarily. Others are paying down debt, which in the long term should also help to lower prices.

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Color me skeptical

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Then the company is responsible for refunding the customer. **You get your refund back from the entity you gave the money to.**

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I understand and agree with exactly what you said

But we know damn well the consumer will be lucky to get back even 30% of what it paid to the companies

So I've seen articles, mostly from liberal rags like the guardian, talking about how huge sums of money are being refunded by the Feds to companies due to some of Trump's tariffs being ruled unconstitutional. I've tried looking for other sources, even CNN, but haven't been able to find anything. I can link the guardian article if someone wants but the point is I guess we, the consumers who mostly actually paid for these tariffs, are screwed and will never see this money?

I'm aware that trying to pass the refund back onto consumers would be incredibly complicated but seems if there was going to be a refund it should be to those who were actually cost the money. I supported Trump's tariffs, have always thought they were worth a shot and still do, but they always knew there was a chance a court could overturn them due to the mechanism used and I would've hoped that there would've been a better plan in place to deal with this rather than just redistributing money from consumers to huge companies and corporations

If anyone can show that this isn't happening or it's not working in this way I'd love to see a link showing it

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I'll bet that Paper Mill in that area is hiring!

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I've been told you gotta know somebody to get hired on there but idk how true that is and I've never applied. If you aren't going the self employed route it's probably the best job in the area

I have had a hard time forming an opinion but generally am unimpressed with Marsha though I'll be shocked if she doesn't win

As an aside, I'm all for being anti abortion (though I don't really care about gay marriage at this point) but are we ever gonna hold our "conservative" politicians responsible for their fricking budgets? Focusing on abortion and gay marriage (which are both basically settled issues in Tennessee anyways) is just asking our politicians to distract us with them while they burn down our coffers

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The switch to Peacock was the beginning of the end, and the move to Netflix killed it.

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This

The original network was tGOAT. I get money talks but it's a damn shame what has become of it. They really did it right

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Running in a boat at night with lights off can help you see things a bit better but another boat doing that same stupid shite coming at you is a problem for both boats.

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This really doesn't make any sense. The running (nav) lights you should have on while running your boats should be positioned to where they aren't even in your vision which prevents them from ruining your night vision while also allowing other vessels to see you and know your directions

Unless you are running around on a boat with the spotlight on all the time which would indeed be stupid

I lurked around a year but I finally signed up and promptly made a thread bitching about Derek Dooley insisting on starting Matt fricking Simms over Tyler Bray despite overwhelming evidence that Simms was going no where fast

I stand by the opinion FTR

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During the Geminid meteor shower, a small space rock the size of a golf ball struck the lunar surface, creating a brief, visible flash.

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Im sorry does this say it was a rock the size of a fricking golf ball? And they were able to see it?. How did they know to even look for it? That's wild

Bruh, that chick is scoring at least an 8 on the PTB (potential to balloon) scale. Potentially even higher if shes younger than drinking age....