02-14-2025, 06:33 PM
On tariffs, the orange man is threatening tariffs on Australia because we have a GST!!
The US has several state level retail taxes! Australia has none!
And the GST applies to domestic sales and imports equally.
Either the man is all hot air when it comes to tariffs, or the trade SURPLUS that the US enjoys with Australia will soon be history. We don’t need Californian grapes and orange juice THAT badly.
And all the really useful stuff is made by our neighbours in Asia anyway
The US has several state level retail taxes! Australia has none!
And the GST applies to domestic sales and imports equally.
Either the man is all hot air when it comes to tariffs, or the trade SURPLUS that the US enjoys with Australia will soon be history. We don’t need Californian grapes and orange juice THAT badly.
And all the really useful stuff is made by our neighbours in Asia anyway