Bill Maher.......

[Kantarii]

The guy is a fucking idiot.


"You should wish for a recession because that would definitely get [Trump] unelected," Maher shot back, earning him a few claps from his Los Angeles studio audience.

"You don't really want a recession," Scaramucci tried to convince Maher.

"I really do," the host replied. "We have survived many recessions, we can't survive another Donald Trump term."

Last week, Maher had revived his stance that a recession would be "worth it" because it would hurt Trump's reelection.

https://apple.news/AK6f1_WQVQZm3ufynVUdQMw

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

I agree with the fake tranny day trader on something, Maher is a complete asshat.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Why pay any attention to him?

He says these things in order to remain relevant to the energy of the hard Left.

It's how he maintains ratings. JaF0 here employs the same device;
say really crazy things about Trump in order to garner attention.

 

[Adre]

No recession necessary. Trump is burning his Presidency to the ground. How many Latinos did he register to vote last week?

 

[jaF0]

Meanwhile ... has Fucker Carlson been put on the Brain Disabled list by FAUX Noose? I've seen reports to that effect as well as that sponsors are bailing out.

 

[SpeareChucker]

I think that when one looks closely, several of the "sponsors" bailing out
are just virtue-signalling as if they were sponsors, but aren't in reality.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Prices for goods in the U.S. rose 0.4 percent in July, a month after tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports rose from 10 percent to 25 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. Excluding the volatile food, energy, and trade services categories, prices for goods fell 0.1 percent in the month, the first decline since October 2015. Economists had forecast a 0.2 percent rise after June prices were flat.

Compared with a year ago, goods prices were up 0.4 percent. Excluding foods, energy, and trade services, prices were up 1.7 percent over the past 12 months.

Overall inflation of goods and services was muted. The Producer Price Index rose 0.2 percent for the month and is up just 1.7 percent for the year.

So who is paying for the tariffs? We know the U.S. government has collected over $60 billion in tariffs over the last 12 months, so it is clear that someone is footing the bill. But the pricing data indicate that the often-repeated mantra that “tariffs are taxes on consumers” is inaccurate.

Tariffs are taxes, to be sure. But unlike a sales tax or a gas tax, consumers do not directly pay any tariffs. Tariffs are paid by importers, often large U.S. companies that are importing from their own foreign subsidiaries or foreign contractors. But businesses cannot raise their prices just because their costs or taxes go up. Sometimes they have to absorb the costs.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/08/09/prices-fell-in-july/

 

[Adre]

Businesses cannot raise their prices just because taxes or costs go up? What a load of horseshit.

(Oh, Breitbart )

 

[icanhelp1]

No recession necessary. Trump is burning his Presidency to the ground. How many Latinos did he register to vote last week?

By your delusionary and retarded thought process you would think he's eliminating the opposition. After all, you did blame Trump for the mass shooting in El Paso and Dayton.

 

[Adre]

I think that when one looks closely, several of the "sponsors" bailing out
are just virtue-signalling as if they were sponsors, but aren't in reality.

Oh really? Last year his show had 36 paid ads, this week, 11. That’s reality.

 

[Conager]

Businesses cannot raise their prices just because taxes or costs go up? What a load of horseshit.

(Oh, Breitbart )

Orly?

If that's the case why don't they just raise them so they can increase their profits?

 

[juttjaw]

Meanwhile ... has Fucker Carlson been put on the Brain Disabled list by FAUX Noose? I've seen reports to that effect as well as that sponsors are bailing out.

So many buzzwords I thought there was a bee in here.

 

[SpeareChucker]

The economic illiterate never figure in the cost of competition and the consumer's
ability to just turn to a substitute product/good/service. They tend to think
in terms of zero sum and corporate greed with little, or no, understanding
of how a complex and free marketplace actually works.

 

[adrina]

Businesses cannot raise their prices just because taxes or costs go up? What a load of horseshit.

(Oh, Breitbart )

Isn't the RWCJ go-to argument that when taxes etc are increased, costs are just passed on to the end consumer? That's why we can't raise corporate taxes or impose any regulations. I've been hearing that for decades. Now when it suits them, it's not?

 

[Rightguide]

Meanwhile ... has Fucker Carlson been put on the Brain Disabled list by FAUX Noose? I've seen reports to that effect as well as that sponsors are bailing out.

Yeah the left went nuts when he challenged a leftist to prove the existence of White Supremacy in the United States and called it a hoax and rightly so. The existence of a handful of such people is not proof they run the country or make policy. FOX management basically told them to get fucked when they demanded his firing.

 

[FukLuk]

Yeah the left went nuts when he challenged a leftist to prove the existence of White Supremacy in the United States and called it a hoax and rightly so. The existence of a handful of such people is not proof they run the country or make policy. FOX management basically told them to get fucked when they demanded his firing.

They like him more than O'Reilly because of his racist dumbfuckery.

 

[Adre]

Isn't the RWCJ go-to argument that when taxes etc are increased, costs are just passed on to the end consumer? That's why we can't raise corporate taxes or impose any regulations. I've been hearing that for decades. Now when it suits them, it's not?

Exactly. Spearsucker has made this argument ad nauseam.

 

[Adre]

The economic illiterate never figure in the cost of competition and the consumer's
ability to just turn to a substitute product/good/service. They tend to think
in terms of zero sum and corporate greed with little, or no, understanding
of how a complex and free marketplace actually works.

So now a “free” market includes tariffs?

 

[Adre]

Orly?

If that's the case why don't they just raise them so they can increase their profits?

They do, Einstein, they do. Buy any gold jewelry lately? I didn’t think so.

 

[Conager]

So now a “free” market includes tariffs?

As far as our experience with free markets in America we've had since the very beginning. So yes.

Revenues and expenditures of a government can certainly be a portion of a otherwise free-market. Nobody said you have to be a nihilist to favor free markets. You have to have Revenue somewhere and there's certain things the government has to buy all of those distort markets because of the volume but that doesn't make free market economic principles not in effect.

 

[Conager]

They do, Einstein, they do. Buy any gold jewelry lately? I didn’t think so.

So why don't they double their prices? If it's working so well for them?

 

[SpeareChucker]

Isn't the RWCJ go-to argument that when taxes etc are increased, costs are just passed on to the end consumer? That's why we can't raise corporate taxes or impose any regulations. I've been hearing that for decades. Now when it suits them, it's not?

Red letter day for you!

Minimal costs got passed on to the consumer in direct contradiction
of the prognostications of rampant Trump inflation.

But, if taxes had been raised, the cost would have been passed on
but tariffs are not taxes in that sense, so many of those things we
get from China, where they use child labor to make Alexis, still have
competitors in the market who have not been subjected to tariffs,
so their prices can remain the same and now be competitive in a fair
marketplace, and I would dare say, some of those products benefitting
are American.

So, lesson one: A tariff is not a general tax; it is a punitive economic tool
to be used against countries who cheat to gain an unfair advantage...

For the most part, this is the companies that you accuse of shipping jobs to China
selling to themselves and then reselling that product to the consumer.
So, they are now paying a penalty for "cheating" and "outsourcing" and
it is not affecting overall prices the way the never-Trump crowd predicted.

 

[Rightguide]

They like him more than O'Reilly because of his racist dumbfuckery.

^^^
What a dumb son of a bitch.

 

[FukLuk]

Red letter day for you!

Minimal costs got passed on to the consumer in direct contradiction
of the prognostications of rampant Trump inflation.

But, if taxes had been raised, the cost would have been passed on
but tariffs are not taxes in that sense, so many of those things we
get from China, where they use child labor to make Alexis, still have
competitors in the market who have not been subjected to tariffs,
so their prices can remain the same and now be competitive in a fair
marketplace, and I would dare say, some of those products benefitting
are American.

So, lesson one: A tariff is not a general tax; it is a punitive economic tool
to be used against countries who cheat to gain an unfair advantage...

For the most part, this is the companies that you accuse of shipping jobs to China
selling to themselves and then reselling that product to the consumer.
So, they are now paying a penalty for "cheating" and "outsourcing" and
it is not affecting overall prices the way the never-Trump crowd predicted.

It's sad that an economic illiterate like AJ understands tariffs better than 45.

 

[FukLuk]

^^^
What a dumb son of a bitch.

Bill was fired over his sexual assaults.
They keep Tucker because Fox finds racism less damaging than sexual assault.

Prove otherwise.