Canadian Tradewar Looming ?

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Trump Tweets:

Canada has made business for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin and other border states very difficult. We will not stand for this. Watch!



But it’s Trump’s solution that’s a problem. Instead of pressuring Canada to lower its tariffs on Wisconsin milk, Trump has decided to retaliate via tariffs of his own, with no sign that he’s using such tariffs as leverage to tamp down protectionism from the Trudeau administration. On Monday night, Trump announced to conservative allies that he would put a “countervailing duty” of somewhere between 3 and 24 percent on Canadian lumber. The United States buys nearly 80 percent of all Canadian softwood lumber exports. This means that builders will pay the price for Trump’s trade retaliation. As CATO Institute pointed out a decade and a half ago, “The resulting addition of $800 to $1,300 to the cost of a new home prices some 300,000 families out of the housing market…workers in the major lumber-using sectors outnumber logging and sawmill workers by better than 25 to 1.”

But this tariff does pay off domestic loggers, who are celebrating along with their Democratic representatives. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), a radical leftist, called the move a “message that help is on the way.”
 

Hijinx

Well-Known Member
Trump Tweets:

Canada has made business for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin and other border states very difficult. We will not stand for this. Watch!



But it’s Trump’s solution that’s a problem. Instead of pressuring Canada to lower its tariffs on Wisconsin milk, Trump has decided to retaliate via tariffs of his own, with no sign that he’s using such tariffs as leverage to tamp down protectionism from the Trudeau administration. On Monday night, Trump announced to conservative allies that he would put a “countervailing duty” of somewhere between 3 and 24 percent on Canadian lumber. The United States buys nearly 80 percent of all Canadian softwood lumber exports. This means that builders will pay the price for Trump’s trade retaliation. As CATO Institute pointed out a decade and a half ago, “The resulting addition of $800 to $1,300 to the cost of a new home prices some 300,000 families out of the housing market…workers in the major lumber-using sectors outnumber logging and sawmill workers by better than 25 to 1.”

But this tariff does pay off domestic loggers, who are celebrating along with their Democratic representatives. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), a radical leftist, called the move a “message that help is on the way.”

$800 to $1300 added to the cost of a house? A drop in the bucket.

The St Mary's County Commissioners do that in a flash a $4500 dollar impact fee that they want to raise to $12,000 and to $24,000 the next year.

http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0417/hearingheldonproposed400percentimpactfee.html

Then they make you put in sprinklers I suppose because of all the terrible conflagrations we have been having..
Private do not need sprinkles IMO. Yes some will argue that, but it's BS.
Where they need sprinklers is in those Fire trap matchstick apartments being built in St Mary's.
 
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Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
$800 to $1300 added to the cost of a house? A drop in the bucket.

Yup. That would be a 0.4% increase in the cost of our new house, still under construction, using the $1300 number. The claims about "300,000 families" are BS.
 

LightRoasted

If I may ...
If I may ...

As CATO Institute pointed out a decade and a half ago, “The resulting addition of $800 to $1,300 to the cost of a new home prices some 300,000 families out of the housing market…"

A whole 15 years ago huh? Let's amortize this addition of $800 to $1300 to the cost of a new home shall we? An addition of $800 to a 30 year mortgage at 5.25% adds an enormous $4. While $1300 adds a whopping $7! If 300,000 people are priced out of a home because of a $4 to $7 monthly payment difference, then we are in more trouble than we are being told.
 
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