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#Lula to #Trump∶ ‘No one will defeat us through #lies’

Opinion by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of #Brazil.

#US #geopolitics #law #InternationalLaw #sovereignty #trade #economy #tariffs #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #BigLie #JairBolsonaro
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Donald Trump’s move to impose a fresh round of #tariffs on more than 80 countries has drawn criticism from both Democratic politicians and his own allies.

Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, announced that the Trump administration “is imposing tariffs on more than 80 countries for their failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor”.

The tariffs will replace a 10% global duty that was due to expire for supposedly failing to crack down on forced labor.

However, congresswoman Linda Sánchez, a California Democrat, denounced the pretext for the new tariffs as a sham.
“President Trump isn’t serious about combating forced labor.
👉 He’s trying to make an end-run around the Supreme Court and Congress to reimpose his illegal tariffs,” Sánchez wrote on social media.
She continued:
⚠️ If he was serious, he would not be applying the same tariff rate to China, one of the worst forced labor abusers in the world, as he does to countries like Australia. Then again, unlike China, Australia, doesn’t manufacture any Trump corporation products.

This is the same administration that gutted funding to combat forced labor through cuts to the Bureau of International Labor Affairs
and rolled back worker protections here at home,
while encouraging companies to profit off some of the world’s worst forced labor abusers through his proposed US-China Board of Trade.
We need to take forced labor seriously. But that includes addressing our problems here at home,
including by taking on the export of goods made with American prison labor.
Slapping more tariffs on every country that upsets the president isn’t the way to do it.

💥“Trump is hell-bent on raising your prices,” congressman Brendan Boyle, a Pennsylvania Democrat said in a statement on Trump’s lastest tariffs.
“His new tariffs are a nationwide sales tax that will only serve to make life harder for Americans just trying to make ends meet.”

And even the president’s own allies have raised concerns over the latest round of tariffs, Politico is reporting.
One person close to the White House, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said:
Everything that you do that’s not focused on affordability is not helpful.
This might not be a negative five, but it’s a negative 0.5.
Anything that you’re doing that is not on the plus side of the scale is a problem.
When you announce new tariffs, it’s not like, okay, well, let’s see what they do.
⭐️It’s, ‘Oh crap, those are the bad things.’

Another White House source told Politico:
I think Republicans are comfortable with the threat, even though that has some market impacts.
But actual revenue coming away from people’s pocketbooks is not what Republicans are happy with.
Any conversation about tariffs, unless it’s reducing them, is a bad conversation for Republicans.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jul/24/donald-trump-tariffs-white-house-correspondents-dinner-latest-news-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

”You cannot negotiate with a man who treats every signed agreement as the opening bid for the next shakedown.”
—Dean Blundell
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-canadian-politicians-are
#trump #usa #canada #tariffs

”Look at Monday’s tariff list. Not what’s on it. What’s off it. Oil and gas. Potash. Critical minerals. The man who tariffed hockey sticks and honey…tiptoed around the three things his economy cannot live without. … It’s Trump telling you, in writing, exactly where Canada’s kill switch is.”
—Dean Blundell, BREAKING: Canadian Politicians Are Openly Mocking And Threatening Trump As Carney/Canada Considers "Nuclear Option" Response To Trump's Tariffs
#trump #usa #tariffs

#Mercosur and @eu @agriculture 🧵

"Because of the current loopholes in the legislation and ease of land use displacement, postponing the ratification of the free trade agreement by individual member states would avoid negative and unintended consequences for the global #climate and #biodiversity. […] Instead, the current status-quo with #tariffs would support a shift towards increased domestic production."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382760567_The_EU's_new_anti-deforestation_law_has_severe_loopholes_that_could_be_exploited_by_the_forthcoming_EU-MERCOSUR_trade_agreement

#co2 #carbon #deforestation #beef #chicken #EU #EUPol #palmOil

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to discuss ratification of the free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union on June 12, 2023. The two leaders are instrumental in the ongoing negotiations that may finally conclude this year. © Getty Images

@kravietz

I largely agree with you. However not with, "Personally, I believe if EU indeed wants to pioneer the sustainable industry, it’s doable but it needs protection with tariffs"
The protections should not be don with #tariffs imo. It should be done by mandating the same rules as the EU has for the production of all imported products. Exactly as you write: "If you can’t mine something in EU, you will need to require your supplier to comply with the same environmental standards as you do.".

ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX NOW!

This is the most important letter I have ever penned to a public official. My message is that the income tax on worker wages is a insidious form of slavery that must be abolished. This is not a Democrat issue or a Republican issue. This is an issue of real justice for a nation of impoverished workers being taxed with a gratuitous and unnecessary income tax that has steadily lowered personal wealth and autonomy for several generations.

ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX NOW!

ABOLISH: verb; To do away with; put an end to; annul; to eradicate; to destroy completely; make void.

Notice that ABOLISH does not mean:

cut ; lessen ; lower.

It means to completely get rid of, en toto, entirely, as in ABOLISH SLAVERY.

So give no place to word games, Honorable Sir or Madame. Just. ABOLISH. INCOME. TAX. NOW.

Recently President Trump has vowed to push for the abolition of the income tax on American worker wages and replace the revenue streams with a tariff system. I require you get behind Mr. Trump, despite his warts and pimples and dimples and whatever character issues or political peeves and quibbles you might have with him--and move full steam ahead to draft, approve, legislate, and enter into law a bill abolishing the federal personal income tax on all domestic wages for all United States Citizens.

The income tax is a relic of feudal barbarism and imperialist war-making barbarism. It enriches a internationalist political class which is able to suck grants and subsidies from its piggly teat while disbursing tiny squirts and crumbs to the American people and their infrastructure. As an American, I have had enough of this thievery of my wages for funding every grimy and useless rent seeker under the sun.

Millions of Americans don't want to hear whiny excuses about how the Federal Government can't function without the Federal Income Tax. That is nonsense. America functioned for several generations during her greatest period of industrial and economic growth and power without an income tax. Then when the World Wars were ramping up we were saddled with this 'war tax' on our income to fund the war. Since then the taxes have kept us impoverished while making the war machine and grifter classes very rich. Workers' standard of living has steadily declined since the income tax was introduced and illegally retained after the World War about a hundred years ago.

I require that you push for, and vote yes on a COMPLETE AND TOTAL ABOLITION of the income tax for all employee wages, and ensure no new taxes are ever again levied on employee wages. If FedGov can print trillions of dollars to fund overseas adventures and endless wars, then FedGov doesn't need to be taxing us for anything. FedGov already taxes us through inflation anyway. Why the hell should any of us have to fill out a return? Maybe FedGov should file a return to us each year to show how much of our labor inflation has stolen from us.

If you don't work strenuously toward abolishing the federal income tax I will vote for whoever decides to run against you. If the federal income tax is abolished, I will vote for your re-election.

ABOLISH INCOME TAX NOW!

Very truly yours in freedom and liberation from tax serfdom,

John Doe American

#IncomeTax #AbolishIncomeTaxNow #Abolition #Tariffs #Economy #Taxes #GeoPolitics #Politics

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(IMPORTANT!) I don't much care for politics but this is a positive development for everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy290h4Yn18

(Boost, Copypasta to other networks, text your mom ... this is great news!)

Trump is talking very seriously about eliminating the income tax for U.S. Citizens. This is the first time a President has had the stones to seriously approach this issue. The income tax is the bread and butter of the military-industrial complex, which enriches itself on our backs. There is no time better than now to abolish the Federal Income Tax.

I don't believe the anti-tariff fear-mongerings. America funded its operations on tariffs for several generations, with no federal income tax at all. Plus the income tax is a war tax. It was implemented specifically, and I do mean SPECIFICALLY, for funding the war machine. Gutting the income tax guts the war machine.

There will be a lot of resistance from the Federal Reserve and the war machine military industrial complex. They depend on the income tax to foment wars and socially engineer our lives and their total information awareness panopticon.

The American people are taxed and that money is used to enrich the rich and the rest of the world through subsidies, bribes, grants, etc. Instead America should tax the rest of the world and enrich the American people. Abolishing the progressive personal income tax on wages is the first step in the right direction.

Whether you are Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or whatever, now is the time to write to your representatives and demand that they support the abolition of the income tax. Fifty million letters should fill up Congressional mailboxes with ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX ON WAGES NOW! ABOLISH, NOT REDUCE! ABOLISH, NOT CUT! ABOLISH! emblazoned on the envelopes.

This is serious. It doesn't matter if your party lost or won the election. What matters is that we get this tax gorilla off the backs of all Americans. We have a President seriously talking about it repeatedly. Trump kept his promises to pardon Ross Ulbricht and other persons given draconian punishments by the courts. He has kept several other political promises. He promised to stump before Congress for the abolition of the income tax. Don't let the momentum die on this proposition. Don't let him wane on his commitment to abolition of the income tax. Get behind it and push!

Abolishing the income tax will do more good for American workers than all the political promises of the last twelve Presidential elections. This is an opportunity for real change for the average American.

#IncomeTax #AbolishIncomeTaxNow #Abolition #Tariffs #Economy #Taxes #GeoPolitics #Politics

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