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"Trade war with penguins": Trump places 10% tariff on uninhabited Antarctic islands (www.salon.com)

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't see why. The problems with global tariffs notwithstanding, can you explain the downside to setting a tariff on these islands?

My guess is just that they're trying to idiot-proff the tariffs (i.e. prevent someone from putting up a shack on this island and using that to somehow evade tariffs.)

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

There's no upside or downside to setting a tariff on uninhabited islands. Why not include Atlantis just in case? Why not also set a tariff on Mars, Venus or Pluto just to be sure? Why not also include Middle Earth and Vulcan in case they turn out to be real?

If all they wanted was to ensure that every place in the world was covered, they could have just said that the standard tariff rate was 10%. What's more likely is they used an LLM to generate a list of every place on earth and just put a 10% next to it, showing how unserious they are.