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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on July 12, 2025, 07:19:55 AM
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Takket
Real life tariff implication.
Don’t want to say disclose where I work, but a year ago I bought a very large and complicated device for the building where I work.
It cost $373,000
It is being built in Europe. Takes a great while to build. Hence a year later only now it is ready.
Got the message from the supplier today. It is good to go, but we need to pay $30,000 in tariffs.
Money right down the drain on the overall budget of my project.
Businesses can’t function this way.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220476963
Well I'll be damned. A tariff bouncy
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A DUmmie who works? Dubious ...
Takket's employer had 5-6 months to purchase the "device" so as to avoid the 10% tariff but did not? Sounds like mismanglement ... or DUmmie-Fiction.
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Very sketchy tale which I completely do not believe. A proper business would have weighed decisions on a capital expenditure and the potential impacts of tariffs considering it isn't as though President Trump didn't telegraph his plans.
Assuming this bouncy is true, I'll bet $1000 that this DUmmy doesn't realize that the Big Beautiful Bill allows full expensing of the purchase rather than depreciating the expenses over its useful life. Yes, those are geeky accounting issues but VERY important when a business makes such decisions.
Additionally, if this machinery took a year to build in "Europe", your company could have paid up front and then you would not have to pay the tariff.
So much fishy in this tale...
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Should have bought American.
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Like most DU stories, it likely should have began with "So" which is the DU equivalent of "Once upon a time".
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Like most DU stories, it likely should have began with "So" which is the DU equivalent of "Once upon a time".
Or like Snoopy, "It was a dark and stormy night..."
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A DUmmie who works? Dubious ...
Takket's employer had 5-6 months to purchase the "device" so as to avoid the 10% tariff but did not? Sounds like mismanglement ... or DUmmie-Fiction.
And they're not going to say what sort of device, other than it's very complicated and expensive. I love guessing games! :-)
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Alex I'll take "Things that did not happen" for $500.
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Two things DUmmie Takket and other DUmmies dare not admit:
1. Trump is doing his tariff thing to "persuade" countries that screw over American companies with tariffs and other barriers to drop their tariffs and barriers. Trump is not doing this to F with other countries for the hell of it.
2. Had LIEden come up with and successfully carried out this or some similar "persuasive" tactic, DUmmies (and pretty much all of the US) would have celebrated Biden's success.
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Lie or not, I thought DUmmies liked it when companies have to pay the US government money.
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Takket, google $27B surplus.
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Takket, google $27B surplus.
It was a single-month cashflow surplus, but it would be amusing to see a DU-grade Prog whining about significant amounts of $$ being paid to the Federal government.
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Assuming this bouncy is true, I'll bet $1000 that this DUmmy doesn't realize that the Big Beautiful Bill allows full expensing of the purchase rather than depreciating the expenses over its useful life. Yes, those are geeky accounting issues but VERY important when a business makes such decisions.
DUmbass DUchebags have no idea what you are talking about. Depreciation, cost segregation, depletion are just gobbly gook words to the super smart all knowing DUmp monkeys.
For any lurking DUches, why are corporate taxes good but tariffs bad in your wise and educated economic opinion?
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This is the widget that is so expensive
(https://i.pinimg.com/474x/8e/19/be/8e19be483e1621b0adea9759f1852b85--rube-goldberg-machine-i-spy.jpg)
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DUmbass DUchebags have no idea what you are talking about. Depreciation, cost segregation, depletion are just gobbly gook words to the super smart all knowing DUmp monkeys.
For any lurking DUches, why are corporate taxes good but tariffs bad in your wise and educated economic opinion?
That answer is fairly simple: because their DemonRat overlords told them so. It doesn't matter what is true or factual. All that matters in the cult of the DemonRat is following the orders of the overlords and bowing knee to them.
I've gotten to the point that I'm beginning to wonder if they hate Trump so much because hate is their default setting OR if they hate him so much because their overlords have ordered them to. Truth be told, it's probably a large helping of both.
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Well I'll be damned. A tariff bouncy
And a bigger bouncy with a DUchebag claiming to be employed.