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Tulipanzo said:
useruserB said:

So the guy from Italy which has a 22% Vat tax and 20% sales tax, has an issue with Trump putting down 25% Tariffs on select Chinese goods. Ok good one.

Like I posted earlier, video game hardware
meant for sale in the US willl just be manufactured elsewhere if the tariffs are applied to another 300billion of Chinese imports and/or increased beyond 25%. Look at Nintendo hedging by manufacturing some consoles outside of China. The price won't really be affected.

And who knows if the new tarrifs will even be issued. China is back to negotiating.

Also, if Russia sent 20 million of its poorest/uneducated people to Italy, lowering unskilled labor wages and having a substantial number of them not really assimilate and the Illegal russian aliens sent billions back home to Russia in remittances every year. Then have a major political party start pandering heavily to the illegal Russian aliens promising them everything from healthcare to citizenship etc... I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be pleased with that.

Don't worry, soon enough you'll get your wish and we US people will be paying more for videogames/consoles than you Europeans. That's because it's just a matter of time before the Democrats get their super majority. They'll increase taxes heavily to pay for social programs and their Green New Deal(s). Over here in PA, the state government is already trying to tax videogames("mature games" for now) by 10%.

Shit, you got me! I really should have thought twice when I personally crafted the Italian VAT tax.
How hypocritical of me to say tariffs are bad.


The rest is, once again for anyone dumb enough to defend useless tariffs, a bunch of waffle about hordes of evil illegals coming to steal your job, or whatever.      Only you are so ignorant of actual modern day politics that you have to invent a migration crisis from Russia, of all places.                                                         

Just to pop in this hypothetical scenario: these Russians couldn't vote for decades, would be contributing members of society until then, and would still have to become a voting bloc twice as large as the entire foreign born population of Italy to even be considered a minor player in politics.
Spoilers: accusing a party of "catering to illegals" is complete absurdity, and the dumbest your fear mongering can get...



Just to have one last laugh about your basic ignorance: the videogame tax was proposed by a Republican.

You really should google more often 

just nope

and

I'm well aware of who first introduced it, some foolish soul trying to virtue signal. But look who's joining in to support it. And which party will overwhelmingly support it compared to the other? Now obviously it has no chance of passing in the near future but somewhere down the road it might. You just gotta look at Chicago and their 9% amusement tax.

"Sponsors of the bill include Rep. Marguerite Quinn [R], Rep. Carol Hill-Evans [D], and Rep. Ed Neilson [D]. On January 28, the bill was referred to the House Finance Committee and is still pending discussion and a vote."

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-02-05-esa-pennsylvania-video-game-tax-a-violation-of-the-us-constitution