I’m fine with JD whiskey myself :)
I have (lowland) Scots ancestors, but not a fan of what Scotland has become.
I have Scottish cows.
Yep
“If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!”
My husband has McCleod ancestors. He’s probably related to Donald Trump.
Scotland is lost, as is Ireland. The rest of Great Britain is not far behind.
I’m in favor of financially balanced trade by tariffs initially, then domestic production requirements and a blocked currency.
The tariffs might be based on:
1. product necessity[0 or 10%],
2. industry wage differential[0-20%, 2% per dollar, levied if country not poor],
3. cash flow imbalance[0-10% all country, 0-20% source country industrialized],
4. 12-month exchange rate change[proportional to 10%, up to 10% reduction, but to not less than 10% tariff],
5. domestic producer profitability[percentage less than 10%; excess above 10%, up to 5% reduction, but to not less than 10% tariff], and
6. trade imbalance[0-20%] with a country.
Scotch is not an essential product.
[A revision]
The tariffs might be based on:
1. product necessity[0%(drug, raw material, industrial level component of product with no domestic source) total, or 10%],
2. industry wage differential[0-20%, 2% per dollar, as estimated by Secretary of Commerce, levied if country not poor],
3. latest 12-month cash flow imbalance computation[by percent, 0-10% all country, 0-20% source country industrialized],
4. 12-month exchange rate change[proportional to 10%, up to 10% reduction, but to not less than 10% tariff],
5. domestic producer profitability[percentage less than 10%; excess above 10%, up to 5% reduction, but to not less than 10% tariff], and
6. trade imbalance[0-20%] with a country.
Looking like 2025 might mean a switch to bourbon for a good number of people.
Trump, who will be inaugurated on 20 January, has repeatedly vowed to introduce tariffs on all imports to the US. …Um, what?
Laphroaig ten-year is the way to go!
Why is a jumped up county councillor like John Swinney talking to a foreign (incoming) head of state?
Never mind one that has been even more virtue-signallingly rude about said incoming head of state than the UK government whose ‘competence’ (lol) this is.