$15 Billion And Climbing: Trump’s Tariffs Deliver Record High Revenue

iluvatar5150 · Monday at 8:06 AM

Aryeh Jay said:
Don't forget the Great Lakes pipeline.

I thought Nestle had already called dibs on that. Though, now that I think about it, last time I was in Alexandria Bay, the water levels were super high and a lot of the docks were underwater, so maybe they could spare some. Anyways, here's a pic I took that day:

A2SG · Monday at 8:20 AM

wing2000 said:
"Republicans" celebrating increased taxes. Go figure.

So long as it isn't primarily on the richest Americans, it's okay.

-- A2SG, they'll get tax cuts to make up for it anyway....

durangodawood · Monday at 8:21 AM

Always in His Presence said:
$15 Billion And Climbing: Trump’s Tariffs Deliver Record High Revenue

U.S. Customs duty collections soared more than 60% in April, marking the highest monthly revenue haul in terms of dollars in American history.

According to newly released Treasury Department data reviewed by Bloomberg, at least $15.4 billion in customs duties and related excise taxes flowed into federal coffers last month, $6 billion more than the month before. This spike in revenue coincides with the first wave of President Donald Trump’s newly implemented tariffs taking effect. Those include a renewed 25% tariff on steel and the “universal” 10% tariff Trump announced on April 2.

The Wal Mart shoppers in my area have too much money. You can tell by looking at them. Good to see the fed govt cutting them down a size, financially.

Landon Caeli · Monday at 9:36 AM

SimplyMe said:
I'm curious, where will the water come from for these new Freedom Cities? Most of the areas where these Freedom Cities can be built are areas which get their water from the Colorado River -- and have little natural water since that land is in deserts or is semi-arid. If you aren't aware, the Western states are already being told to cut water usage as Lake Mead and Lake Powell, two of the largest lakes in the US, which dam the Colorado river, are at extreme low levels.

Water is only an issue... Not a "problem". Big difference.

Desk trauma · Monday at 9:44 AM

Landon Caeli said:
Water is only an issue... Not a "problem". Big difference.

Having insufficient water is a very big problem when trying to establish a city.

Landon Caeli · Monday at 9:48 AM

Aryeh Jay said:
Don't forget the Great Lakes pipeline.

The Great Lakes Compact must be broken.

Landon Caeli · Monday at 9:50 AM

Desk trauma said:
Having insufficient water is a very big problem when trying to establish a city.

The only thing stopping us from creating an underground water pipeline from the Great Lakes, is the selfishness of some Midwestern people, who have limited insight.

Break the following agreement by a federal mandate, and this fabricated "problem" goes away...

Great Lakes Compact - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Landon Caeli · Monday at 9:57 AM

The environmentalists complain about rising sea levels, including the great lakes.... Yet they'll stand in the way of solving that "problem".

...Go figure.

Desk trauma · Monday at 10:14 AM

Landon Caeli said:
The only thing stopping us from creating an underground water pipeline from the Great Lakes, is the selfishness of some Midwestern people, who have limited insight.

Break the following agreement by a federal mandate, and this fabricated "problem" goes away...

Great Lakes Compact - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

All this to avoid building where there is already infrastructure to support industry.

iluvatar5150 · Monday at 10:17 AM

Landon Caeli said:
The environmentalists complain about rising sea levels, including the great lakes.... Yet they'll stand in the way of solving that "problem".

...Go figure.

Rather than build 1,000 miles of pipeline to build a new city in a portion of the country that's harsh enough that nobody ever really settled there, why not scarf up the land in the rust belt that already has access to that water (and loads more)? There are thousands of farmers up there who couldn't give away their property if they tried.

Hans Blaster · Monday at 10:33 AM

SimplyMe said:
I'm curious, where will the water come from for these new Freedom Cities? Most of the areas where these Freedom Cities can be built are areas which get their water from the Colorado River -- and have little natural water since that land is in deserts or is semi-arid. If you aren't aware, the Western states are already being told to cut water usage as Lake Mead and Lake Powell, two of the largest lakes in the US, which dam the Colorado river, are at extreme low levels.

Freedom Water, of course. Trump will just divert some "blue state water" to them...

Hans Blaster · Monday at 10:44 AM

iluvatar5150 said:
Rather than build 1,000 miles of pipeline to build a new city in a portion of the country that's harsh enough that nobody ever really settled there, why not scarf up the land in the rust belt that already has access to that water (and loads more)? There are thousands of farmers up there who couldn't give away their property if they tried.

1000 mile pipeline. It was a major effort for a 2 mile pipeline:

Waukesha's Diversion of Lake Michigan Water Highlights the Importance of the Great Lakes Compact - Alliance for the Great Lakes

This was a case where a small city just outside the watershed of the Great Lakes no longer had a viable water supply (radon contamination) and wanted Lake Michigan water and to eventually get it, they had to return the same amount of water back from their sewage treatment plan into a river that flowed back to the lake. There will be no such pipeline to the arid regions of the nation. (Everybody mocks the Midwest until they want our stuff.)

Landon Caeli · Monday at 10:55 AM

Hans Blaster said:
1000 mile pipeline. It was a major effort for a 2 mile pipeline:

Waukesha's Diversion of Lake Michigan Water Highlights the Importance of the Great Lakes Compact - Alliance for the Great Lakes

This was a case where a small city just outside the watershed of the Great Lakes no longer had a viable water supply (radon contamination) and wanted Lake Michigan water and to eventually get it, they had to return the same amount of water back from their sewage treatment plan into a river that flowed back to the lake. There will be no such pipeline to the arid regions of the nation. (Everybody mocks the Midwest until they want our stuff.)

What do you guys need all that water for? NW Indiana used up their entire shoreline for industrial purposes, and contaminated Lake Michigan for decades... You guys aren't doing anything with it, you're just hoarding it for nothing.

...You even wiped out your own smelt population just in the last couple decades!

The great Lakes alliance is a total failure.

Hans Blaster · Monday at 11:01 AM

Landon Caeli said:
What do you guys need all that water for? NW Indiana used up their entire shoreline for industrial purposes, and contaminated Lake Michigan for decades... You guys aren't doing anything with it, you're just hoarding it.

...You even destroyed your smelt population just in the last couple decades.

What will we fill our lakes with instead? Beer? (Oh, that sounds pretty good, Lake Miller, Lake Schlitz, Lake Hamm, Lake Stroh, Lake Heilemann, Lake Pabst, so many good names to choose from...)

Desk trauma · Monday at 11:07 AM

Hans Blaster said:
What will we fill our lakes with instead? Beer? (Oh, that sounds pretty good, Lake Miller, Lake Schlitz, Lake Hamm, Lake Stroh, Lake Heilemann, Lake Pabst, so many good names to choose from...)

Somewhere a European is reflexively screaming about American beer already being indistinguishable from water.

Hans Blaster · Monday at 11:23 AM

Desk trauma said:
Somewhere a European is reflexively screaming about American beer already being indistinguishable from water.

we need a volume brewer to fill a hole as big as those. No time for craft brewing.

SimplyMe · Monday at 3:37 PM

Desk trauma said:
Though it was the Mississippi? Such a waste sending all that water out to sea when it’s so simple to catch it all and pump it over to the Great Basin. Make the American water great again! Like the Aral Sea!

Except the Mississippi River has been at record low levels the last couple of years, to the point it has affected shipping on the Mississippi. So it would seem that is out. I suppose the pipeline is a thought, though you have to question how feasible (and the cost) of a pipeline being 1500 miles long, including traveling through the Rocky Mountains; a pipeline big enough to support a few "freedom cities". We are talking a huge pipeline that can carry millions of gallons of water per day; just a city of 100,000 will likely require almost 7 million gallons of water per day. There are reasons that the idea of a pipeline from the midwest to somewhere like Lake Powell was very quickly rejected.

Landon Caeli said:
Water is only an issue... Not a "problem". Big difference.

No, in much of the Western US, water is a "problem", not an issue. Lower Colorado basin states have faced mandatory water cuts, and that is after years of attempting to lower water usage to prevent these mandatory cuts.

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