Month: April 2025

Trump Tariffs Biggest Tax Hike US Has Seen

2 April 2025 14 hrs

Donald Trump has raised taxes on Americans hugely. Trump tariffs biggest tax hike US has seen. 25% tariffs on imported cars. 25% on Canadian and Mexican goods. 20% on Chinese goods. And more to come. These tariffs mean higher prices paid by ordinary Americans. Thus, tariffs are taxes paid by Americans. So much for the GOP being supposedly a political party committed to lower taxes. Get ready for the return of high inflation and prices rising across the board. Joe Biden and the Democrats spent 4 years getting the economy back under control after the ravishes of the global pandemic only to see the Trump wrecking ball stuff it all up again.

Economics Fresh Politics

by Clio

2 April 2025 14 hrs

Trump Tariffs Biggest Tax Hike US Has Seen

Economics Fresh Politics

Tobacco farm, many small green plants in red dirt

by Clio

27 March 2025 6 dys

Black Market Tobacco Grey In Australia

Australia is full of progressive laws that just don’t get enforced. I call us the land of toothless tigers and unlike the Tasmanian tiger these are not rare or extinct. Indeed, they are prolific. Black market tobacco grey in Australia because it is so readily available. Tobacconists stock black market tobacco openly in defiance of the laws of the land. Why is this so? Is it a bit like the long held laisse faire attitude of male police officers toward domestic violence in this country? Smokers don’t like paying so much for their ciggies and most cops in Australia are blokes. They just don’t see the problem.

Crime Fresh Politics

by Clio

27 March 2025 7 dys

America The Unreliable Ally

The US is the laughing stock of the international world. In a new low, the fools appointed by Trump and the GOP to his cabinet are messaging war plans on unsecured apps and accidentally including the editor of The Atlantic magazine in their group chat. Incompetent does not do justice to this it is totally stupid. Meanwhile, this flow of information, which would in normal times be top secret and highly classified is likely being spied upon by foreign intelligence services like Russia and China. Indeed, one of the members of the group chat was in Moscow at the time. America the unreliable ally continues to be a major embarrassment.

Fresh Politics

Midas Word Follow

SpeakTruth

Midas Word @midasword ·

15 Feb

Trump’s America is the enemy. The enemy of those who believe in law and order. The enemy of those who value democracy. The enemy of those who oppose white supremacists, sexual offenders

Reply on Twitter 1890585717878776100 Retweet on Twitter 1890585717878776100 Like on Twitter 1890585717878776100 X 1890585717878776100

Midas Word @midasword ·

13 Feb

It is estimated that a third of the 4 000 training and certification businesses in Australia are crooked and issuing false certificates for fast bucks. Why is this happening?

Reply on Twitter 1889845334588923928 Retweet on Twitter 1889845334588923928 Like on Twitter 1889845334588923928 X 1889845334588923928

Midas Word @midasword ·

12 Feb

Many of these American multinational corporations don’t pay their fair share of taxes anywhere they operate. Apple, Google Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft

Reply on Twitter 1889487122220159161 Retweet on Twitter 1889487122220159161 Like on Twitter 1889487122220159161 X 1889487122220159161

Midas Word @midasword ·

11 Feb

The overarching message being taught to our kids is that bullying is alive and well at the very top level of human interrelations. The ugly Americans have control of the house.