[Carefree]

Originally Posted by LateBrake8

Sorry, I disagree.

And you should. Remember the age old adage:
“Those that can-DO and those that can’t-TEACH
Our educational system, from top to bottom, is in the dumper largely due to self absorbed lightweights in academia.

[JABCAT]

Originally Posted by LateBrake8

Fine, I'll play.

It's not the assertion about incorrect info that bothers me (because you are correct in that regard), it's (1) your negative sentiment towards ChatGPT as a whole, and (2) your act of talking down to me, as though I am one of your 9th graders.
[/I]

Ironic to claim I was talking down to you by insinuating I teach 9th graders, which is as incorrect as your previous statements. What I stated is a fact, using ChatGPT as a reference is worse than using Wikipedia. Just because you don't agree, doesn't make it so. The conclusion you drew, that BMW will just absorb whatever tariffs are imposed, based on ChatGTP, then arguing my statement is laughable.

You practice law, cool, I have a "D" at the end of my degree too.

[02M3ForMe]

Deploy broad tariffs, increase costs of everything, prime everyone for an initiative to end income taxes. If this is the plan, I wouldn’t expect any carve-outs, though BMW would be one of the most likely to get one approved.

Swapping income taxes with tariff revenue is bad policy that dramatically shifts the tax burden from the wealthy to the very consumers who make the US economy the best in the world. Basically, trickle-down economics on steroids. Add retaliatory tariffs, and you have an immediate reduction in demand for US exports that will kill US jobs now, while we wait years for our new tariff policy to bring some back.

When you artificially pull out so much money from the most active part of the economy (just to give it to the government, who will almost certainly misuse it), it’s hard to see how this could possibly end well.

[LateBrake8]

Originally Posted by JABCAT

Ironic to claim I was talking down to you by insinuating I teach 9th graders, which is as incorrect as your previous statements. What I stated is a fact, using ChatGPT as a reference is worse than using Wikipedia. Just because you don't agree, doesn't make it so. The conclusion you drew, that BMW will just absorb whatever tariffs are imposed, based on ChatGTP, then arguing my statement is laughable.

You practice law, cool, I have a "D" at the end of my degree too.

I did not draw any conclusions; way to strawman. And look, more blanket statements.. Have a nice rest of your weekend.

[IanH]

For context I run an inventory heavy business that won't really be affected by tariffs as we build most of our stuff at high cost here in the US.

The stupid part about the tariffs is that whether you pay a tariff has absolutely no relation to whether you have sold or will sell the item. This will change business behaviors first and foremost. Less inventory leads to higher prices, higher cost leads to higher prices, less profit leads to employment cuts. The idea that companies will simply change the structure of their business to source components in the US is lunacy. Many things literally cannot be purchased in large enough qty in country.

[Carefree]

Originally Posted by JABCAT

You practice law, cool, I have a "D" at the end of my degree too.

Degrees can be deceiving, somewhat meaningless, and an inaccurate predictor of intelligence. For the most part all that’s required are time, memorization, and recitation of the subject matter. Here is a short list of people WITHOUT degrees:
Mark Zuckerberg
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Richard Branson
Steve Wozniak
Michael Dell
Walt Disney
Henry Ford
…….there are hundreds more.

Stuff a sock in your elitist “D”

[IanH]

Whoever is reporting carefree as spam. Cut it out. Just because you don't like what someone says doesn't mean it's spam. Fkin losers.