[Leica] If Trump wins, he says he will apply a 20% tax on imported goods.

[Douglas Barry]

I'm in Europe and not in that market right now. Besides I generally buy 
secondhand :-) Mind you it's just what we all need - another trade war 
with massive knock on effects on all participants. If I was an exporter 
from the US, I'd be very frightened.

In Ireland, we're all assuming he's going to win over there. It's all 
very sad when one realises that the US led the world towards democracy 
in the past, and there so many more capable people in the GOP.  It's a 
sad reflection of more than a few factors, including, among many others, 
an underfunded US educational system and the mass of its products, a 
fractured and biased media, and historically lower voter turnout - 
thanks to your two party system and lack of proportional 
representation.  It's hard to believe that a washed up 78 year old 
serial failure with such a dodgy business background keeps the party of 
Eisenhower and Reagan in thrall, despite his history of treachery and 
sexual impropriety.

Don't flee your country, stand up and fight.

Douglas


On 16/10/2024 01:10, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote:
> What do you do?
>
> You really really really want a new M11. Or 50mm Noctilux/Nikon Z9.  
> or a BMW/Lexus or XYZ, all made in some foreign land..
>
> If you buy it now, before the election you will save thousands..... 
> (actually before he would be inaugurated in January)
>
> If you wait, and he is elected and he does apply the tariffs, you are 
> out thousands.....
>
> Do you buy now or later?
>
> Thoughts? Plans? Tactics?
>
> (I do not mean this as a political issue,  It is meant only as a fun 
> thought provoking consumer issue. So no rants on Trump, Harris, 
> election denialism, etc..........)
>
> Frank Filippone
> BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
>
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