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1 posted on 09/08/2018 3:36:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Trump tweeted that “Apple prices may increase because of the massive Tariffs we may be imposing on China - but there is an easy solution where there would be ZERO tax, and indeed a tax incentive. Make your products in the United States instead of China. Start building new plants now.”

Damn straight. MAGA!

2 posted on 09/08/2018 3:47:18 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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Yup!
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even some foreign car companies build many of their cars in USA

it is (or can be) good business, on several levels


3 posted on 09/08/2018 3:49:51 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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For what they charge for their iPhones, I presume Apple has some wiggle room to hold prices even if their costs should rise.

A lot of people assume that all cost increases to a company will result in those costs being passed on to the consumer. That’s a false premise. A company has to remain competitive in the market and can’t charge too much above what their competitors charge. How much they can absorb really depends on their profit margins.

For some companies, market share is as or more important than profits.


4 posted on 09/08/2018 3:50:31 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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Trumps Attacks Children!!

Tells Apple to make things in the USA to avoid Tariffs, Millions of Chinese Children to be Unemployed.


5 posted on 09/08/2018 3:58:16 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Apple. And Nike. For Nike, sacrifice everything


6 posted on 09/08/2018 3:58:37 PM PDT by Bernard (We will stop calling you fake news when you stop being fake news.)
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That’s all they gotta do.

Driving through Libby, Montana a few years ago I noted that the people looked poor, the cars were awful, the women looked like pillbillies.

Running cattle ain’t the business it used to be.

All I could think of was...what if little towns like that had the factories that thousands of Chinese towns now have?

The future would be far brighter for them. And companies like Apple would have to charge maybe 30 bucks more for an iphone.

Maybe.

Most people don’t know that Apple’s offshoring is the outgrowth of an article in the early 90’s advocating that Apple concentrate solely on software in the U.S. and offshore/outsource all their hardware which was deemed low value added. Many people at the time objected saying it was unpatriotic. But eventually they were all coopted and now Apple is basically a Chinese company.

Mr. Trump may be able to reverse all that, but he sure as hell has a lot of people hobbling him.


7 posted on 09/08/2018 4:00:01 PM PDT by Regulator
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Bring on the tariffs, including the iPhone.

Meanwhile, Samsung won’t be subject to tariffs. This will prevent Apple from passing the tariffs onto consumers. Apple will have to eat the tariffs. That’s great! Move production out of China to avoid the tariffs.

It is STUPID for a company to have all their production in 1 foreign country. Stupid. Is. As. Stupid. Does.


9 posted on 09/08/2018 4:11:08 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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Ah! Apple... the company that likes to get politically involved with the far left and show the middle finger to millions of Americans.


11 posted on 09/08/2018 4:17:54 PM PDT by Moorings
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Time to remind all your leftard ‘friends’ of the ChiCom Sweatshop Labor that went into that expensive Gold Plated Turd they are so proud of.


14 posted on 09/08/2018 4:48:04 PM PDT by elbook
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Isn’t that the idea of the whole tariff thing? And renegotiating treaties?

We need to produce things - lots of things - right here in America again. Quality AMERICAN products, made with AMERICAN labor, and AMERICANS earning respectable wages.

AAPL enjoyed the Trump tax cuts and relaxing of regulations. Time to step up to the plate and produce here, bank here, spend the research dollars here.


15 posted on 09/08/2018 4:48:59 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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Nope. Prices will just go up to reflect the tariff.


16 posted on 09/08/2018 4:55:12 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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^^^Trump tells Apple to make products in U.S. to avoid China tariffs^^^...

...and while you’re at it, use LEGAL residents of the USA for all of your workforce-—including janitors, groundskeepers and cafeteria workers.


17 posted on 09/08/2018 4:59:44 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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Double Yep. Nope, Triple Yep.


18 posted on 09/08/2018 5:09:46 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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Dip$hit Applenuts would pay an extra $75-100 in a heartbeat.


21 posted on 09/08/2018 6:30:06 PM PDT by DAC21
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Bravo to Mr. Trump for speaking the truth.

Apple *used* to make computers in Elk Grove, California (near Sacramento), and IIRC they made laptops at one point near Boulder, Colorado.

They could make iPhones, MacBook Pros, and other stuff here, if Tim Cook told them to. But I sense Cook is too much into being the LGBTQRXYZ hero, too much into living with his (male) partner the LGBTQRXYZ lifestyle, and more interested in money than the nation which allowed him to do the previous two things without being stoned to death, or experiment with gravity and no parachute from upper floors of buildings.

Cook also seems to have forgotten if people can’t make enough money to purchase things they make, pretty soon things they make won’t get made. Think Henry Ford & his wage structure when he pioneered the assembly line.


24 posted on 09/08/2018 7:59:44 PM PDT by Sam_Damon
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Did he clear this with Bill Kristol though? Risky.


25 posted on 09/08/2018 8:11:26 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Swordmaker

Do not buy new Apple products. If you have to stay in their product line, buy used from a third party. Apple has become a disgrace of a company:

a/ they have completely deplatformed AlexJones while leaving Anti-American anti semites like Louis Farrakhan on iTunes.

b/ they took down 25,000 Chinese apps at the request of the communist Chinese govt.

c/ they gave the communist Chinese govt the backdoor keys to the Apple cloud in China, effectively giving the Chinese govt extra tools to spy on over 200,000,000 Chinese.

Tim Cook of Apple is a traitor to freedom and to America. STARVE APPLE do not buy new Apple products till he is gone/their policies change.


30 posted on 09/08/2018 11:40:45 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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This is a primo example of why Trump is getting so much heat. All these companies making trillions off cheap labor, so you can imagine what they are paying to get Trump out of office.


54 posted on 09/09/2018 12:23:27 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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