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I don’t think you’d even get the irony in this comment.
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Or this one.
Why don’t you think people would invest in the US under President Harris?
I honestly don’t know why I’m bothering…
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Plenty…
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The IRA and CHIPS Act have triggered significant investment into the U.S., with estimates suggesting over $400 billion in new clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing projects, alongside $540 billion in semiconductor-specific investments announced since the CHIPS Act was signed.”
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And thus we can move on to number three…
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I for one welcome our new frog overlords.
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Kermit has always been the number one US citizen.
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Raising the corporate tax rate by 7% as a start
It looks like spawning a pool of thought. Hopefully it doesn’t just croak a tad, but hatches streams of ideas that simply jump from the tongue.
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Monsieur Ant, hear me out.
Like dismissing an actual person’s actual belief as “virtue signalling”, dismissing their conviction that Palestinian people are being royally fkd over (to put it mildly) as a badge is deeply unfair.
I am one such folk fellow. (Drunk, yes, but clear. Very clear.) Eff eff ess (FFS), I care about justice for the humans getting slaughtered - absolutely slaughtered - only on the facts of the situation! Cos I’m not a psycho, even if I’m lEFTy LEFt!
I know Palestinians! I’m not all up in arms saying, “oh, I wish children still needed to have amputations without anaesthetic because I don’t want Trumpcnt to look good”! Again, I’m not a psycho! FFS! Even with a ceasefire we are ■■■■■■■ 100000s of kilometres from justice and addressing root causes! I fixed my running cistern with a cardboard toilet roll but I’m not asking for a plumbing prize!
It’s not difficult:
- colonisation supported by the UN fkd over both Zionists and esp. Palestinians. (Sure, let’s go back to biblical times and give England to Italy)
- the US loves having a dog on a leash in the middle east, and the whole world loves have a testing ground for “crowd control” and weapons/drones etc
- Gaza is destroyed
- Gazans are decimated
And my thoughts are supposed to be “oh this is difficult cos I was barracking against Trump”? Literally no one who actually cares gives a ■■■■ about that obvious charlatan winning or losing - we care about real life, he’s an evil annoyance, like bad diarrhoea.
Eff fs sake.
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What a crock of sh*t.
Big corporations will invest wherever they think that there is money to be made.
Government raises Corporate Tax…Corporation raises it prices/fees etc.
And of cause all their wonderfully honest lawyers will be looking for any and all the loopholes they can find so as to continue paying negligible (if any) tax.
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Sure mate
Raise the corporate tax to 50% and see how much capital they’ll raise 
You’ve seen the sort of capital risk Trump has brought on the US, right?
Boycots, countries finding other trade partners because they have no idea what their trade deal will be with Trump from one day to the next, ICE detaining South Korean workers specifically brought in to train US manufacturers…
Yes?
If you want to call trade ‘investment’ then you can look at how US farmers are doing right now, too.
Not because of global circumstances, directly because of Trump’s policies.
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Gee…you really got me there by changing the goal posts.
Norway taxes the oil companies 76% on their profits…22% corporate tax and a 56% special petroleum tax.
And yet still the oil companies drill for more oil.
As I said, corporations will go where there is money to be made.
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I see Trump got his Covid booster.
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Don’t tell his health secretary.
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Trump administration lays off dozens of CDC officials, NYT reports
Oct 11 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has laid off dozens of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its latest round of cuts, including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
The White House and the CDC did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Affected workers were sent layoff notices via email shortly before 9 p.m. ET (0100 GMT) on Friday, informing them that their duties were now deemed unnecessary or “virtually identical” to those being performed elsewhere in the agency, the newspaper said.
The exact number of affected CDC workers is yet to be confirmed, it said.
The ongoing U.S. government shutdown has sent hundreds of thousands of federal workers home, with staff at the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the CDC, affected.
Is Palestine free?
And for a person that claims to have made an award winning indigenous film, you have a peculiar penchant for trolling and trying to “trap” the idea of “the left”.
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The ISM US Manufacturing PMI rose to 49.1 in September 2025, up from 48.7 in August and slightly above market expectations of 49.0. The reading marked the seventh consecutive month of contraction, though it was the strongest in the current downturn. A rebound in production (51.0 vs. 47.8) was offset by a decline in new orders (48.9 vs. 51.4). Employment continued to fall, albeit at a slower pace (45.3 vs. 43.8), while customers’ inventories (43.7 vs. 44.6) and order backlogs (46.2 vs. 44.7) also contracted, pointing to continued softness in demand. The input prices gauge eased to 61.9 from 63.7 but remained elevated, indicating persistent cost pressures despite some moderation. Survey respondents cited tariffs, high costs, and weak demand as key challenges, with many holding off on capital projects, cutting costs, and facing delayed orders, particularly in machinery, metals, and semiconductors. source: Institute for Supply Management
United States ISM Manufacturing PMI .
Seems like Trump’s policies are working great to attract investment.
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