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I'm just hoping I don't get charged tariff on my next shipment. A refund on the last one would be great to.

Nobody here has broached the topic of tax cuts for ALL Americans that have been a direct result of the massive amounts of income that America has already received from the increased revenues from tariffs. I recently met with my tax preparer who confirmed this. She used to work for the IRS, so she knows what she's talking about.

This year my income went down, overall business was down and taxes were way up due to tariffs.

Nothing good at all for me in the changes that Trump has brought to the economy and the tax structure.

I do have some extremely wealthy friends who could not be happier with the changes to the tax code though.

In order:

No, it's not.
I didn't say any of those things.
There's very little binary.
I'm uninterested in "intellectuals and their weak-minded followers."

Nope.
My "...pro-gun democrat buddies..." didn't send Tammy Baldwin to Washington.
I'm well aware of Baldwin's record on 2A.
Why would you suggest I'd vote for Baldwin.
The people who vote for Balwin for other reasons - even if I disagree with them - are not wrong.

Of course I did.
I've never sent "...staunchly anti-gun congressmen and Senators to Washington."
Where did I say it was a win?
It's not my job to explain it to you, and honestly, I feel like it'd be a wasted effort if I tried. The great thing about our country is that it's full of people with different opinions, and we we all get to act on them to the best of our abilities. It's messy, but it tends to work.

Princess SKB, it is beyond hilarious to see you say you staunchly support the 2nd Amendment. And your excuse for consistently supporting anti-gun Democrats and bashing pro-gun Republicans is dishonest at best.

You conveniently seem to forget or ignore when your Liberal Left Democrats egregiously violate the Constitution.

You did not criticize the Obama admin over Operation Fast and Furious when they compelled FFL's to violate their own Gun Control Act of 1968 by having them sell semi-auto rifles and handguns to Mexican Drug Cartel criminals in the hope that when those firearms were used in violent crimes and murders, they could more easily push for more gun bans and Universal Background Checks. There's a 2A infringement you didn't complain about.

We never heard a peep from you when Obama killed U.S. citizens in drone strikes, without them getting their Constitutional due process and presumption of innocence. He gave them the death penalty without any arrest, representation, or a trial. A clear 14th Amendment violation.

Bill Clinton started the process of forcing thousands of FFL's to surrender their licenses, and that was continued under other Democrat presidents, often using arbitrary rules such as the amount of business they did, or minor inadvertent mistakes in their record keeping. Commerce clause and the 10th Amendment violations.

Obama also initiated the use of false information from Hillary's phony dossier to allow the FBI to illegally obtain a FISA Warrant to allow wiretapping and spying of Donald Trump and others to help Hillary's election campaign. So much for your big phony concern over election interference... and the 4th Amendment.

We now know there was no legal basis for the FBI raid and search of Mara Largo, and that documents were falsely altered and displayed to the Liberal Press. It was an illegal search and seizure and 4th Amendment violation.

During the Covid pandemic, we saw your Democrats banning Religious services protected by the 1st Amendment, all while permitting mass gatherings for riots and George Floyd's multiple funeral services. Many others were not allowed to have proper funerals for their loved ones who died.

During that time, we also saw widespread censorship. Trump and many others were banned from various Social Media platforms, and we now know from Mark Zuckerberg and others that they were compelled to do this by the Biden admin. Many Doctors and researchers who disagreed with the official government line of the vaccine, the origins of Covid19, etc. were also censored. So there's a lot more 1st Amendment violations you were not concerned about.

And let's not forget that thousands of people lost their jobs for refusing the vaccine, including members of the U.S. Military.

You saw no obstruction of justice when Biden facilitated an invasion of our country by unvetted Illegals... something that cost U.S. citizens far more than the Tariffs.

You yourself admitted to standing by like a sheep and saying or doing nothing as BATF Agents illegally removed records from your shop contained in your FFL bound ledger books by photographing them. You never voiced any concern over Democrats efforts to ban semi-auto rifles, large cap magazines, etc., and even said you would not care if they all went away. So much for being a "staunch 2A defender".

I could go on and on with examples to show that your lame ass excuse for supporting anti-gun and anti-2nd Amendment politicians is bullshit. Your big concern over Trumps Tariffs is self serving because it supposedly affects your bottom line. Are you telling us you have assumed all of those costs, and have not passed them on to your customers? What other things has Trump done that supposedly cost you more than all other Presidents combined? It appears the greatest drag on your business is the many hours you spend here whining instead of working.

Almost all Presidents test the limits of Constitutional authority, which is why the Framers created the Supreme Court to adjudicate and interpret just what each Amendment says. Sometimes, even the Supreme Court gets it wrong, as they did with Roe vs. Wade, where there never was any Constitutional Right to abortion. Trump used his Emergency Powers to impose Tariffs because he saw a slow motion erosion of our industrial base, massive job losses, suppression of U.S. workers wages, destruction of property values, crumbling infrastructure, and a multi-trillion dollar deficit making our nation weaker and vulnerable to inevitable economic collapse. He saw a country that was relying upon its enemies to produce military supplies, machinery, automobiles, vaccines, antibiotics, food, etc., and he did something about it.

And he didn't simply collect billions in Tariffs, and then take daily naps like Biden. He and his Trade Negotiators quickly used that hammer to get better trade deals and settle some global conflicts without endangering U.S, Troops. So he won, even if he lost a Supreme Court decision. You will no doubt cry about his work-around... but you didn't complain about anti-gun Democrats doing end runs around the Heller, McDonald, and other recent 2A Supreme Court decisions.

Staunch 2A defender... what a load of crap.