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You jest but one reason Chinese EVs aren’t available here is that there’s a 100% tariff on them. One hundred percent! Enacted under Biden, no less.

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And that’s a good thing. Modern cars are rolling surveillance devices. We don’t need CCP eyes in every garage in America. We also don’t want to lose the manufactiring capacity that the domestic auto makers bring.

CCP surveillance basically can't hurt us. what are they doing? collecting consumer habits like every American company? What would they do with that info? Make a more consumer competitive product? No wonder we get this propaganda all the time. American surveillance on the other hand, well that's connected to our security forces and can very much hurt you.

> one reason Chinese EVs aren’t available here is that there’s a 100% tariff on them

Our egg prices are also high because we block Mexican and Canadian imports. Trump continues a multi-decade trend of taxing consumers to subsidise business owners.

The US is the largest egg producer on the planet. We export a huge amount of them(#2, behind Netherlands I think). We don't need eggs to be imported from Mexico or Canada.

The consumers looking at egg prices 3x that of the ones across the border would disagree that they don't need eggs to be imported.

I suppose he’ll deliver on his campaign promise when our egg exports are tariffed!

Okay, and I'm sure Mexican and Canadian consumers would disagree with that because they don't want to deal with egg prices 5x what they're used to.

Canada and Mexico don't produce enough eggs to have any effect on the egg shortage in america. Which, to note, has been an issue since 2024. It is not related to any kind of trade war that Trump is starting

the egg prices are high because we are culling egg laying hens infected with H5N1 due to pandemic risk

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