Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC

[presidentcamacho@lemm.ee]

Yes but people will pay redhat Linux to use a distro with support. Also almost the entire US internet server infrastructure runs on Linux.

So yeah a company can provide an open source product with commercial support

[logi@lemmy.world]

Give it 6 months and Amazon will be running this model for you "serverless" with a code name making it seem like their own product.

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

Issue with that, they would love to have "chipless" cars they can repair with a screwdriver and a wrench.

[poplargrove@lemmy.world]

That was interesting but it didnt talk about the export ban. It was more like an overview of the Taiwanese economy and how the chip industry relates to it.

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

He's probably has had dementia for a while, that's where his lean and dumptruck ass come from.

[deepus@lemm.ee]

Has it ever been?

[mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world]

The US definitely doesn't give a shit about all those countries.

But my take is the US is doing it so that it can continue its global dominance. Russia or China will happily take its place if the US relents. Are you willing to take a backseat to China or Russia? Doubtful.

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

They will say that was the work of the democrates as a last 'fuck you'.

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You mean we finally can get a gpu?

[sapphironza@sh.itjust.works]

They are pocketing the higher margins in countries without tariffs.

[theoretiker@discuss.tchncs.de]

To be fair, we mostly have examples of how free trade reduces prices. But this reduction in prices usually wasn't instantaneous and perceivable by ordinary folks. Because corporations wouldn't hand out the savings to consumers until the very slow market force of competition forced them to.
Tariffs will make everything more expensive and even if they are eventually culled, stuff will not become suddenly cheap again.

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

I mean Puerto Rico is literally part of the US and that doesn't seem to matter for them.....

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

He doesn't have the ability to directly set prices, no. He could massively subsidise things he wants to be cheaper. Do you think that's going to happen though?

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

Best I can do is a GPU box with a rock in it

[inhale_vegetables@aussie.zone]

Does that always happen? I cant think of examples but yeah what you say makes sense

[interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml]

But that wouldn't make billions of chicken appear into existence. The eggs would be cheaper and there would shortsges.

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

I'm sorry, I'm not sure I'm following your train of thought....

Are there currently egg shortages? Subsidising something doesn't mean there's less of it, means the government pays someone in the production stream to keep prices low. Like what happens with gasoline just about everywhere.

[dead_or_alive@lemmy.world]

I agree, I doubt very much that price savings for any reduction in Tariffs will be passed onto the consumer.
However any increase in Tariffs will immediately be felt.

I’d rather see an increase in a single sector such as microchips to show the public the costs of Trump’s plan in real modern dollars to help build opposition. Than wait until he pushes an across the board Tariff. Which would likely result in a stagflation for the population at large.

[dead_or_alive@lemmy.world]

I agree I’d rather Trump shit the bed hard and early so we can contain the damage and show the public at large what his policies will really do to them.

But Tariffs will never be enough to offset income tax completely. I think he is going to use Tariffs to offset renewing his tax cuts for the wealthy. There are a good number of house republicans who will not go along with tax cuts if it increases the deficit. Revenue from tariffs would give him enough cover to placate those Republicans while directly pushing the cost onto US consumers who are primarily lower and middle classes.

Even after 4 years when he is out of office and the next administration reduces those tariffs and goes back to a progressive tax system. Even reducing those tariffs then will never bring prices down. Companies will never pass those savings entirely to the consumer they will pocket the money and everyone else will be screwed.

[nutsack@lemmy.world]

they do this with other models