Along_the_Wire “this is nurmel when you take overhead transactions into account with first time buyers over the course of five surcharges. Easy when you know how. I’ve sunk 40 pounds into an escrow and will watch it grow, I should make £65.78 by 2052 because the tax rate will have haved by 2046 making the markets soluable again. That or the loony left will hide Hunter’s laptop in the bull markets and I’ll lose 13%, either way I’m up.”

    Fucking lol!

    That’s literally him 😂

    RichM I thought this was Trumps way of creating jobs and growth internally, but surely it takes years for companies to achieve this. They don’t suddenly buy US goods and services over night due to tariffs increasing. So will stick the US in a recession for a while I imagine.

    Will he just back track on this in a month or 2 when it’s not working? He does love causing some chaos, and all his chums are prob now investing whilst the economy plummets

    303abuser I think you’ve got it, at least based on everything I’ve read. It’s basically a tax on the working class to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.

    With your suggestions of it helping his chums to invest while the economy plummets - this will be sending loads of businesses in places like Vietnam and Cambodia in to an instant major crisis; I wonder if some US companies will be taking the opportunity to buy them at a massive discount, secretly knowing they’ll have a ready-made market in the US again when Trump eventualy lifts the tariffs.

    Just speculating based on wondering how any of this actually benefits anyone and the reason for that formula. Would fit in to Trump’s tactics with places such as Ukraine, Greenland and Panama of trying to bully other countries in to handing the US their lunch money.

      He’ll call them off and claim some sort of victory or other.

      LT42 😂 you should start an “ask funky” advice column.

      hugopal I’m sure the grift is wide-ranging. His inner circle is probably playing both the short and long markets ahead of every spur of the moment announcement and retraction. I’d also bet that if you could track meme coin funds, there have been carve-outs for specific industries to avoid getting the brunt of the tariffs.

      Trump torching pension valuations and investments. Now where’s that cash ISA.

      May I refer you to one of my favourite books on said topic, written in 1912.

      LT42 “this is nurmel when you take overhead transactions into account with first time buyers over the course of five surcharges. Easy when you know how. I’ve sunk 40 pounds into an escrow and will watch it grow, I should make £65.78 by 2052 because the tax rate will have haved by 2046 making the markets soluable again. That or the loony left will hide Hunter’s laptop in the bull markets and I’ll lose 13%, either way I’m up.”

        RichM but surely the majority of his voters are the working class who will get fucked over by this

        Yes, but he’s an angry white racist like them. That comes before everything else including their own wealth.

        How many piss poor people from khazi council estates in Britain vote for the Conservatives for the same reason? Or will now be voting reform for that reason? Or voted for Brexit for that reason. They’ll happily be poor if it somehow keep the foreigners out. Mild British xenophobia is the only reason the Conservative Party / right wing politics has continued to be a force in this country, it is the reason that turkeys vote for Christmas, not that anyone will ever say it out loud on the TV or radio.

          I’m not sure who is the worst political commentator on here:

          Amps ‘Monbiot’ Ampersand or Du ‘Paisley’ Funky. Both make my temple throb and twitch.

            bosstrabs Both make my temple throb and twitch

            You disagree?