Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Perhaps this could tax the huge data centers being built in the USA, which tend to get huge local tax incentives. But, if I had a data center I was trying to kit out, this would encourage me to setup shop any place other than the USA. (Latency matters, but not equally for everything.)

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh no, don’t worry. Big tech will get exemptions and write offs.

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    • rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only the big tech that donates large sums of money to Tramp (which seems like most of them)

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just tell him computer chips are made of McDonalds and diet coke, several problems will solve themselves shortly after.

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• compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just wait until he has a conversation with the AI freaks in his admin. He changes policy based on the last person he talks to. What an idiot.

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• simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But, everything is computer.

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• richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not Nvidia and not Apple. That’s so ridiculous. It will just increase the price of any electronics devices.

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• Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do it, idiot.

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• Illogicalbit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The cover image looks like he’s trying to make farting noises with his mouth. Not that that’s much different than anything else he that comes out of it.

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• carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The other 95% of us:

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• goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck computers. They suck anyway

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then why are you here?

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    • goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To express my anger about this tariff idiocracy.

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• switcheroo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yam Tits just heard the term, hence the sudden tariffs.

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• Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyone remember the punchable faces subreddit?

  Yeah, this face would be forever pinned at the top.

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He’ll back down from this like everything but what a fucking complete moron

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• OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good it’ll slow down the atrocious e-waste I hope. Fucking everything doesn’t need wifi and blue tooth and bullshit.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    okey dokey den

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Could I not just avoid this entirely by buying electronic products from literally anywhere else though?

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you are in the US how do you think that would work? If you are not then it really does not matter since the US is not a major chip producer afaik.

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    • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I heard the cartels have a sale this weekend on NVIDIA cards

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    • INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He will remove tarrifs on goods containing microchips in spectacular fashion.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No he won’t

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