Buying before tariffs
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Too late now - the deed is done.
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Monday morning should be interesting.
Maybe see if you can find a used/refurbished computer. Or maybe wait it out.
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Ha! I really didn’t think that dumb SOB would actually do it, but he did. Tariffs are now the law of the land. I have been thinking about what this means and what it means is higher prices for paper, paper that comes from Canada! That means toilet paper and paper towels!
My guests use astonishing quantities of toilet paper and paper towel. Best I buy a truckload tomorrow while I can still get it. I’ll be in line at BJs when it opens. I hope they have a forklift.
I have also left a voicemail with my management company to include a 10% tariff adjustment to be added to the normal rental rates for the Airbnb‘s.
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All those illegal crossings from the north.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that Canada has allowed "millions and millions" of people to illegally enter the United States. However, with regard to Canada at least, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for Fiscal Year 2024 tells a different story. In that period, Border Patrol apprehended 23,721 people who illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border, representing just 1.5% of nationwide Border Patrol apprehensions. In contrast, at the U.S.-Mexico border, Border Patrol reported more than 1.5 million apprehensions in the same year.
In 2023, the last year for which we have statistics at the moment, more people crossed illegally from the United States into Canada than in the opposite direction.
And the flood of fentanyl:
In Fiscal Year 2024, USCBP seized 21,148 pounds of fentanyl at the southwest border, mostly smuggled from Mexico. In contrast, only 43 pounds were intercepted at the northern border. This means that less than 1% of all fentanyl seizures occurred at the U.S.-Canada border.
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