Angry Bear is fortunate to have an association with a writer at the Tax Foundation. While it may not be similar content, it does offer a different view. Guest Commentary by Erica York. ~~~~~~~ Customs and Border Protection (CBP) continues preparing to refund more than $166 billion in unlawfully collected tariffs plus interest; it’s a process that will rightly return funds to […]
Vaccines have proven efficacy and public health value over billions of doses and, in many cases, decades of experience world-wide. In spite of this record, the Secretary of HHS insists on calling into question vaccine safety. Yet under his nose, Americans are experimenting with unproven and potentially dangerous peptide injections. “Here’s a new trend that […]
Commentary by Erica York at the Tax Foundation on the pass-through impact of tariffs on pricing in the United States. The other possibility is companies may they eat it for a short period of time and maybe pass it through later in the time-table. The idea being the United States may later drop the tariff […]
Commentary by Erica York at the Tax Foundation addressing tariffs and President Trump’s use of them with his intent of protecting the US economy. They don’t . . . ~~~~~~~ “Another paper finds tariffs depress economic activity” After the Supreme Court ruled President Trump’s emergency tariffs unlawful, he immediately implemented a 150-day 10 percent tariff under […]
This is why nations shouldn’t pay ransom. “The president reacted to the Supreme Court’s judgment by initially announcing a new universal 10% levy, using a different legal framework for the latest tariffs, but then increased the global tariff rate to 15% — the legal maximum which can be in place for 150 days before congressional […]
Erica York (VP Tax Foundation) discusses Trump’s imposing tariff, there being struct down and his reimposing other tariffs using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. The president then has the authority to impose temporary restrictions such as tariffs or quotas on goods from other countries based on specific conditions. The temporary surcharge cannot exceed […]
Many of these companies in Thailand have contracts with US automotive manufacturers. Their contract more likely than not are set on a fixed tariff with little room for expansion. They will be turning to the big three and also the Tier1s both of whom buy componentry, wire harnesses etc. under contracts. I can see both […]
Angry Bear is very fortunate to have guest posts by V.P. Erica York of the Tax Foundation. The timing of this particular commentary gives Angry readers some insight as to the impact and possible outcome of President Trump’s tariffs. The Court may have some input to add to the legitimacy of tariffs. Read on . […]
How many euphemisms are there for TACO? “Carve-out.” “Step-backs.” “Exclusions.” “Price relief.” “Rollback.” How about “advancing to the rear?” Trump’s tariffs are turning out to be fairy tales told to children. Trump wrote that his tariffs are unleashing “an American economic miracle, and we are quickly building the greatest economy in the history of the […]
Taxing land and not improvements according to the value of the land? Sounds like a novel idea. Review: Land is a Big Deal – The one-handed economist, Daniel Zetland OB recommended this 2022 book by Lars Doucet (LD) because I was asking for advice on lowering rents in the NL. LD writes with a different style from […]