That is a stupid point.

Demand for certain consumer products cannot be managed domestically. It makes no sense to tax items with little to no domestic competition.

I can get behind protecting domestic industries to a point (they still need to show they can be competitive with govt intervention) but throwing up blanket taxes in items like coffee, cocoa, citrus is just hurting Americans because there is no way all demand can be satisfied domestically.

Trump's policy seems to be very similar to what China has done over the past few decades.

I'm from the mid west, never waited more than 5 minutes. I know it's just one example but meant to show how resources are not divided on density

One issue in the US is that voting locations are not adequate in higher density populations that have Republican controlled governments.

I live in a more suburban area of a major US city in the South, I've never had to wait more than 10 minutes to vote. My coworkers who live in the downtown area often have to wait 2-3 hours and that sometimes is just for the primaries. Lines have been as long as 5 hours in presidential elections.

We need non-partisian election controls before we'd ever be able to mandate voting.

Annoying arrogance with that comes with priviledge... now with guns? Shit got real over there.

Or people that would have spent $20 on a meal instead had a pb&j sandwich made at home. They still ate but the restaurant list of on a sale.

Indentured servitude?

Maybe if Republicans hadn't spend the last 4 decades trying to destroy unions, they wouldn't be pushing more liberal causes.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINIUSA

It's no coincidence that this graph coincides with Reagan's "trick"le down economics.

The only people with opinions like yours are those who never listen to NPR.

They do a lot of human interest stories, i guess since it's not always focused on the white male perspective i can see why conservatives think it is biased.

Retreating to me means a reduction in market share. While growth has definitely slowed in some key global markets, the overall adoption of EVs is still growing. Automakers that abandon the tech will also abandon a significant portion of the market.

We have 1 EV and 1 hybrid in my garage. I imagine we'll keep that mix until solid state batteries are a mature technology and there is no longer an advantage to having an ICE vehicle.

Having driven an EV for the past year, I don't see myself going back to an ICE.

California asking for warning labels, Texas asking for your papers.

There are plenty of people who simply make poor financial decisions.. there are also a large number of people out there that work hard and can never get ahead because wages have not kept up with inflation in a very long time.

Then there are those who make good decisions but are ruined by health care costs because one family member is diagnosed with cancer.

If our government wasn't so hell bent on siphoning even more wealth to the top, maybe we could re-create the middle class.

Doritos and Mt. Dew

My son took some coding classes in elementary school. In my opinion, it was a good method for teaching logic and how to solve more complex problems through planning. The actually coding was very minimal.

Learn to AI is dumb, I agree. If it's such a great technology, 5 to 10 years from now it will be extremely easy to use.

Very, very expensive health care/insurance.

A stupidly large segment of US households are one major medical incident away from going broke. Insurance is there to maximize profits and sponsor naming rights on arenas and stadiums, not to actually help people.

I sprained my MCL years ago and got a prescription for a knee brace. My insurance was charged $400 of which around $150 came out of my pocket. Little did I know I could buy the exact brace direct from the company for $85.

Health care in the US is good but it's a rip off