For smaller packages that’s fine, FedEx etc. are allowed to pay the tariffs, then reclaim them from you (plus an admin fee you can get them to waive if you bug them).
It’s a different arrangement for commercial companies, but the end result is the same - CBP take the tariffs in exchange for the goods, whether they take them from the customer directly, or from a broker like FedEx.
I hope that once Trump is gone, people like you will atone for the reputational damage you have done to toddlers during his presidency.
All these companies collecting this money just need to fucking stop, and say “Fine then sue me” to the WH
There aren’t companies collecting the money. Customs and Border Patrol receives (paid for) goods, inspects them, charges a tariff, and releases the goods once the company who ordered it have paid the tariff.
A company has ordered something, paid for it, and receives a bill from CBP saying “pay this tariff or you can’t have the stuff you’ve ordered and paid for”.
We won’t give up on US trade! Once the dollar tanks we’ll be happy to buy up your stuff!
The court said it’s too early for the judges to decide if having the Ten Commandments posted in every classroom in Louisiana would violate the Constitution.
Why, is it 5:30am and they’re all still in bed?
The strategy being “pretend you’re not an evil fuckface to get more votes”, presumably?
I’m well aware - I have a pretty comprehensive understanding of American political history, albeit entirely gleaned from Day of the Tentacle, The Wire, and that Obama “HOPE” poster.
So the news here is “Rebellious Republican didn’t rebel against Republican bill”?
Except “rebellious” means “still toes the line 96% of the time” and “Republican bill” means “whatever fucked up turd of an idea Trumps handlers have evacuated through that festering mouth-hole in his face”?
Maine lugging around a record number of “Fell For It Again” awards with that POS senator.
I’m not American so I’m probably missing something, but isn’t this a Republican who votes almost exclusively along party lines? So, a case of people getting exactly what they voted for?
I’m not saying she’s not a despicable arsehole, but it doesn’t seem like she hides it.
Trouble is, if you take this away from trans people, some will kill themselves.
And if you take it away from angry white men, you just get angrier white men.
Most prominent example? Trump’s hair.
free at point of use.
Im not playing petty semantic word games with you.
Oh, but you’ll play them with the OP? How unfair.
Just all turn up in surgical masks.
the article literally quotes the owner of the daycare saying “school is free”. Which it isnt. that was a lie from the owner.
What would the sentence “school is free” actually mean then? Do you think the word “free” usually means that it hasn’t cost anyone any effort or money to produce? Because it basically always means “the person receiving it doesn’t pay for it”.
free at point of use. tax (rightfully) pays for it.
What is this American obsession with pointing this out? Yes, free at the point-of-use. That’s what “free” means in this context. What else could it possibly mean?
It’s his 80th birthday soon, and a country is the very best birthday present you can get. That’s why Trump wants it.
The minerals thing is why Trump’s handlers want it.
I am glad she is showing people, at least in Europe, that not all of our policymakers are working with this administration and do not wish for the Auth. American future we are sprinting towards.
That’s lovely and all, but the horse has bolted. The only sensible approach is to sever as many ties as possible with the USA. It would be madness to trust a country which has demonstrated it can flip this quickly into fascism.
Trump is just going to fund ICE through other piles of money that he got in the BBB and that he’ll just start cutting other more critical services
Worse - ICE are already fully funded until 2029. As in, they have already been given $75b to spend over the next 3 years. Cut their funding to zero tomorrow and it has zero effect on them until after the next election.
“British English” are the ones you’re looking for. Them or “patronising”.
The hill I will die on: the English translation of Nena’s 99 Luftballoons is far more poetic than the original. Some translators just have that magic ability to see what the author was going for, and then put it much better in a different language.