Lol.
Oh yes, the overflowing mountains of fentanyl coming in through our northern border... get real bud.
Lmao . The illegal weapons used for crimes come across the American border and the opiod crisis started in the US.
We just need to go back to Afghanistan and take control of the opium poppy production. Heroin is/was a much better alternative to fentanyl.
Ah, yes, Canada. The great land where there are no drug traffickers and if there are they respect the laws of the border.
Nobody even does Heroin anymore. Too expensive, not as potent. It's fenny and crystal meth.
What a load.
It's amazing Bellingham WA hasn't turned into Juarez.The opiod crisis was started by Purdue pharma in the 90s in the united states. Fentynal didn't reach north America as an alternative until the 21st century. So the taste for synthetic opiods was started in the US , and yes exasperated by all of North America.
I'm not going to argue about whether or not fentanyl is a problem that needs more attention. I assume you don't want it in your country (assuming you're canadian) anymore than I want it in mineIn fact, the amount of fentanyl seized at the Canada-US border is hardly impressive: 19.5 kilograms were seized by US border agents between October 2023 and September 2024, compared with nearly 9,600 kilograms at the borders with Mexico. In 2022, moreover, a report from the US Congress estimated that Canada was not a major country for fentanyl. How much of Canada's production goes to the US? "It's very difficult to know, and it's not necessarily Canada's primary market, which exports as far away as Oceania.
Because there's no heroin to do lol. At least speaking for my area, almost no heroin gets seized. It's all fentanyl as far as opiates are concerned. And watching fentanyl quickly become the drug that is almost always the highest quantity in busts with multiple drugs involved is nuts. It's not by choice end users are buying fentanyl. And there's no convincing me it's not related to the withdrawal from Afghanistan and loss of control of the opium production that entailed.
It's the fucking entire basis of these tariffs. You should care it's on false pretenses. I'm a damn red blooded American bucko, dont cast labels. It's uncouth.
My wife works with the homeless community. It's significantly stronger and cheaper , probably cause it's more readily available yes. But if both were , they're still likely reaching for fentanyl.
Fentanyl is coming from China.
US tariffs have been the lowest in US history for a long time. They've been creeping down for a long time:
Offsetting tariffs with income tax reductions is a smart move, income tax is essentially a negative tax on people who work, work longer, work better and more productive, etc. It actually discourages working more and earning more.
Levying tariffs instead offers more production and investment in America. Because our consumer market is so heavily sought after many companies will be forced to on-shore or face grave economic consequences. We are powerful enough as a consumer market to persuade companies to on-shore manufacturing, especially given China's current economic hardships. There are also companies that are moving a lot of manufacturing to Mexico, whether that's from America for the cheaper labour or from China to avoid paying tariffs levied on China.
Obviously it's a balance with protectionism and we will see how it plays out, but all in all I believe these tariffs may pay off in terms of on-shoring companies (as we are seeing hundreds of billions of investments trying to avoid tariffs) and increased revenues from them. If we offset the increase in consumer prices with lowered income taxes, it should also encourage people to produce more as they will be encouraged to work more. On top of that, if Mexico and Canada actually address border security then we also get border security and the tariffs gone on top.
Mexico at the very least deserves a tariff just for how they have handled the border with US. The fact that we let that go on for so long with no repercussions is a disgrace.
