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They are the true villains.
idk about Villains they are just trying not to rock the boat.
Imagine 300 Snoofy's or LiesHurts in your office complaining about that "this will stop suicides" (which turns out to be a lie)
The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine
How the left ended up disbelieving the science
www.theatlantic.com
Nah the promoters of the lies are the real villians.
Why was Canada even imposing this tariff? Because Trump imposed tariffs.
~Snoofy
You sure?
The proposed Act would implement the Digital Services Tax (DST) announced in the 2020 Fall Economic Statement, further details of which were presented in Budget 2021. Annex 7 to the Budget set out the policy intention, described the main features of the proposed tax, and invited input from stakeholders.
www.canada.ca
Canada's Digital Services Tax Act was enacted on June 20, 2024 and came into effect by Order in Council on June 28, 2024. The new legislation imposes a digital services tax of 3% on digital services revenue exceeding C$20 million. As noted below, the first payment is due on June 30, 2025.
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First, the foreign-born share of the population in a county was highly correlated with a shift toward Trump. Second, Trump likely won the immigrant vote. Naturalized immigrants went from favoring Biden in 2020 by 27 points to favoring Trump by one point.
LiesHurt, its been rising steadily since the 70's when it was down to about 4%, to todays possible 27% by 2030.
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Remember when Snoofy said what happened in 1971... well there's your sign.
Oh, I agree.
But, for the scenario you propose, the dollar is weakened specifically and intentionally.
Is the weakness of the US Dollar of late specifically targeted?
Or is it due more to the uncertainty of having the US as a reliable trading partner, among other things?
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Does it matter? As a tourist do you look at the strong Euro and wonder is it a target? or is Europe a strong trading partner? Why? Will that interfere with your visit to Disneyland Europe?
Why would it matter as a tourist? You go where you can afford, and if the weak dollar continues purchases and visits to the US will increase.
Lets imagine Snoofy, aka Mr InternationalTourism is $3Trillion dollars, is correct international tourism is ----, then a thinking person would say, hey lets see if we can get a deal to visit Florida?
People travel to all sorts of countries where they have no rights clearly thats not an issue.