- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he’s terminating all trade discussions with Canada effective immediately.
“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period,” Trump said in a social media post.
He says he’s pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax (DST), which requires web giants pay a special tax.
Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users — a policy enacted by former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government that the Parliamentary Budget Office projects will bring in billions of dollars in revenue.
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Conspiracy Time!
I wonder if they are trying to flood the ‘Canada’ SEO because of this recent event:
https://globalnews.ca/news/11262681/canadian-dead-ice-custody-florida/
The deceased lived in the US for their entire adult life. It’s not like a tourist was snatched and died in custody. First, everybody should be outraged about this type of treatment happening to a human being, but there’s no reason for Canada to have anything more to do with this.
How dare the Canadian government get American companies to pay their fair share for operating here [in Canada]
How dare they charge *checks notes* the same thing Visa and Mastercard charge everyone in our entire country for everything.
At least they are not charging American Express numbers. (really blowing out your closest trading partner over 3% on netflix is nuts)
I bet you that the shell taste more like cheese then that pre-shredded shit on there.
I’ve had one.
It does not.Oh wow.
“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying…”
How has he still not learned that it is Americans and American businesses that pay the tariffs.
He knows, but he also knows that his base is too dumb to recognize it, so he lies because raising taxes on Americans is unpopular.
He’s committed to the “big lie” strategy. And unfortunately it works well for what it does if you dgaf about consequences imposed by reality playing none of your games
I’m not certain what he knows or does not know. In any case, his message to MAGA is clear, Canada will pay, and they’ll believe it.
I mean, he did make Mexico pay for the wall that he built. Right guys? He did, didn’t he? Fox News said that he did, and they wouldn’t lie, right?!?
Of course he did! Do you not remember? It was in the summer of 2022. President Biden launched a surprise nuclear assault on France. Every major American city was leveled. With NATO in ruins, Mexico built a wall to hold back the tide of refugees above the border. They also sent humanitarian and financial assistance, thanks to a deal masterminded by Trump.
simspons did an episode of a retalitory french nuclear strike.
ERR3067 TIMELINE CATALOGUE CORRUPTION
Nah. Fox News is (usually) more subtle than that. They simply stop talking about fails. And that’s all it takes. Just stop talking about the fail and talk about something else. Why bother lying when you can STFU and get the same or better results?
MAGA’s razor: it’s both malicious and stupidity.
It’s not so much whether or not he knows it, so much as how much he cares. He knows what he says will get his base riled up, and that’s what he likes. It strokes his ego and gives him more power.
hes also been obsessed with tariffs since forever.
That could be true, but he is dumb enough to not understand. Malice or ignorance are always possibilities.
He also knows that if he just repeats things people will believe them, even in spite of evidence they can see, feel and touch.
What a stupid timeline, in which the above is true🙄
Right, but he can’t raise income tax very much, and he needs money to give to all the rich fuckers, so a big federal sales tax “disguised” as a tariff is a decent way to raise funds.
Don’t need to raise the income tax. The government makes up the money. Could simply turn on the printers and give to the billionaire. The cruelty is the point as it always is.
Oh he knows. He’s just compelled to lie by whatever that jelly is in his head that is a brain in normal people.
Bring in BYD …
Set to take effect on June 30, the DST requires U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb pay a three per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users
Good.
It should be a lot higher, honestly. Encourage building Canadian services and using European services instead of relying on predatory American monopolies.
3% of revenue is a substantial number.
However, even better:
The tax, which will take effect on 30 June and be applied retroactively from 2022, will impact both domestic and international companies, meaning American giants Amazon, Google, Meta, Airbnb and Uber will have to start payments from Monday.
hah, imagine companies asking customers for taxes back from 2022
You know this is not how it works, yes?
I mean it doesn’t stop companies trying to comply with the law the worst way possible
It is a corporation tax, not the sales tax.
They are using the turnover to estimate tax liability because taxing profits achieved in a single country by digital multinationals is bordering on impossible (and too easy to avoid).
Yup. Companies avoid paying taxes in one country by getting their divisions in other, lower tax countries to charge the one in the high tax country so much for intellectual property and branding etc that they make a loss in the high tax country, which in some countries entitles them to a tax rebate. It’s insane.
“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven-day period,”
…proceeds to bomb Canada tomorrow.
Maybe, but then he’ll learn why there’s Geneva conventions.
Sweet Summer Child the world is not going to do a damn thing. We are all ducked
Might as well. ICE killed a Canadian citizen.
He’s just pump and dumping the stock market again now that there’s no Iran to distract us
Reminds me of a joke. The person that says it can quit smoking anytime they want, because in fact, they do it multiple times a day.
Mark Twain, hundreds of times
His words have been proven to mean nothing. He just speaks without any thought, senile old man.
Aw, even though Carney tried so hard to pass bill c-2 for daddy Trump? I wonder what their new excuse for the bullshit “border” bill will be.
Yeah, well, Trump says lots of things. None of which have any meaning or worth. He’ll be saying the opposite best week.
This is the equivalent of that obnoxious kid in the neighbourhood saying they’re taking their basketball home and no one can play basketball any more … then after he leaves, someone else brings another basketball anyway.
That’s definitely going to help him make a deal.
Thursday, Canada signs huge rare earth mineral mining deal with Iceland, humiliating Trump.
Friday, Trump throws a tantrum.
As is tradition
Do you mean Greenland or did they do some deal with Iceland?
Ugh. No, you’re right. Greenland.
Iceland = Bjork, Greenland != More ice-covered land than green.
I love Björk. She’s small and angry.
In the 90s UK Spitting Image did a whole sequence of “101 things to do with a Bjork” - she was living in England at the time being her awesome self. Go take a peek on youtube for it!
I have my own list of things to do with a Björk.
It’s easy to remember which one is which, Iceland is green and Greenland is covered in ice.
I was so focused on making fun of Trump that I messed it up.
