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  • yes, and that was a planned phaseout, and not some insane abrupt change of an entire nations pricing structure. it gave companies time to adjust their sales and marketing techniques. many companies in the united states employ the .99 tactic to make their goods seem cheaper than they are, without the legal ability to round, they’ll have to forego the psychological tool and make their products .00, or lose .04 a sale and make their products .95, this is going to screw them right up the keister, like immediately, and I am very much looking foward to watching the fallout from this when the big corps start losing their minds


  • ok, but realize what that’s going to cost in the near term, and it’s going to be more painful than any war you’ve ever fought, any fire you’ve ever put out, and any economic downturn your country has ever experienced, up front, and i don’t believe most modern economies want to shoot themselves in the head quite yet, they’ll have to endure humilating trade concessions which will shrink their economies gradually, but they’re not gonna want to pull that rip cord just because they’re a bit miffed




  • ummmmm, there’s a reason people, companies, and nations want to trade with the united states, it’s because they have the largest economy, with the richest per capital spending power of any place in the world, with 342 million people. no one is “cutting the us out of the global economy” not even countries that trump is about to punish with economy wrecking tariffs, he’ll just tariff you more. this sounds like a good plan, until you run the numbers, and “Cutting the US our of the global economy” reduces every nations ability to trade by 20% - 50%, and that my friends, leads to hundreds of millions of people into destitution and poverty on a scale no one has ever seen before. I mean with one fell swoop Trump did away with USAID and it’s $40 billion dollar foreign aid budget, which in turn cut off tens/hundreds of millions of real live human beings, all across the world, from foreign aid consisting of life sustaining food, clean water, & medication, the death toll will be astronomical. soverign nations like saying they can do without the us, but if you watch closely people are going to start dying from just $40 billion being taken away. that’s a fraction or a fraction of a fraction of the trade monies exchanged with the us.