If President Trump wants Mexico to pay for The Wall, he can not do it by putting a tariff on imports from Mexico to the U.S. A tariff on imports is a tax paid for by U.S. consumers in the form of higher prices. If the tariff stops the imports, it will allow the higher prices to be charged for U.S. made products. It will be a “win” for the company and its workers who get the protection, but it will be paid for by U.S. citizens, not Mexico.
Category Archives: Homeland security
Giving money to Egypt is actually welfare for rich corporations
Planet Money reported recently that the $1.3 billion in military aid that we send to Egypt every year is being wasted. All of the money we give them is to buy military equipment from U.S. manufacturers. Much of what they buy is duplicative and excessive for the Egyptian military and is simply being stored in crates. The primary reason that this continues is that U.S. manufacturers lobby Congress for it to continue, and Congressmen and Senators want to keep the jobs and money flowing into their States.
Listen to the audio report at this link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/08/23/214928040/episode-482-why-the-u-s-keeps-sending-weapons-to-egypt
Backup data lost? No problem!
Dilbert, the comic in the Register, recently revealed a great tip for computer users: If you lose your data for any reason, and you don’t have your own backup or if your backup fails, then you can appeal to the N.S.A. to get a copy of the “backup” of your data that our government keeps.
