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US Tariffs, Sigh!

Gino

Gino

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It's the vaping.

I no longer drink whiskey, but I do have an occasional glass of wine in the evening. It went up about $1.00. It's not a necessity, so the extra dollar doesn't really bother me. I buy a gallon about once a month. I don't drink coffee, but I do love me ice cream and that's still cheap.
 
JBurton

JBurton

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Snydo said:
younger people not drinking like they did in decades past
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I see this, but at the same time, can't imagine Kentucky Bourbon relying on 18-25 year olds. I'm just a simple sign maker from Arkansas, I don't pretend to understand your tariffs, or the way your congress works, but one thing I do know, kids in that demographic were drinking heaven hill or some other blended trash.
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ikarasu

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White Haus said:
Yeah I meant stockpiling in terms of the government-run liquor distributors, (MBLL, LCBO, dunno what you have in BC) that are sitting on millions of inventory rather than selling it, in the name of "proving a point". Not entirely sure how that works in terms of when they pay suppliers or if it's a consignment type deal but I read an article the other day that was saying NS alone had like $15M in US booze sitting around. Kinda silly. Just sell the damn stuff then don't re-order it. You're only punishing us poor Bourbon drinkers! :roflmao:

Edited to add, found article here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nslc-american-alcohol-booze-pulled-from-shelves-1.7589952
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From what I heard, at least for Ontario... It's like a consignment, and all the liquor got sent back.

I believe BC sold all of it and just didn't do any re ordering....


I'm sure every province is different. I agree, sitting on it if it's paid for is dumb, it doesn't prove a point or accomplish anything.


Just googled it... Looks like Ontario alone sold 1 billion dollars of us alcohol in a year... All the stats I see are that Ontario accounts for most of the US sales ... I guess Ontario people like to drink!

Im sure that 1 billion is getting pumped into Canadian products.... People who drink don't just stop drinking. So LCBO doesn't get hurt, the people don't get hurt (except they drink shittier bourbon I guess?), seems like a win win for Canada.... And it seems to be hurting the USA bourbon economy if a lot of them are going out of business.


Whether it's accomplishing pressure on trump to lower the tarrifs or not.... It doesn't seem like it. But even so.... I guess Canada first? Pump the billion in sales to Canadian distributors vs American, even if it isn't accomplishing its goal of Tarif reduction, at least it's helping the Canadian economy.
 
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MikePro

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feel free to google which distillaries are filing bankruptcy and why.
....sorry to say, but its not because of Canada and no they're not going out of business.
 
Stacey K

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Kids don't drink like we did. My son stays home some nights and meets up online with his friends and plays video games - I would never have done that at 20! I was waaaay too busy sneaking into bars, finding sketchy men to buy us beer at the minimart, going to picnics every weekend in the summer and again, finding sketchy men to buy us beer. No cells phones, just meet at the picnic then after some friend of a friend of a friend would have a bonfire after in their parents back 40. Most of the cities had a bar to dance at with a DJ. Now its all that kareokee crap.
 
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RabidOne

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Stacey K said:
Kids don't drink like we did. My son stays home some nights and meets up online with his friends and plays video games - I would never have done that at 20! I was waaaay too busy sneaking into bars, finding sketchy men to buy us beer at the minimart, going to picnics every weekend in the summer and again, finding sketchy men to buy us beer. No cells phones, just meet at the picnic then after some friend of a friend of a friend would have a bonfire after in their parents back 40. Most of the cities had a bar to dance at with a DJ. Now its all that kareokee crap.
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I grew up with a buddy that had a full beard at 15, no sketchy types for us to buy booze, just my buddy Brent!
 
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MikePro

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my hispanic friend had a liquor store owner friend of the family from church, was able to buy whatever we wanted at 16 but I specifically remember them hitting the $5 button after everything they rung up.
 
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MP Custom

MP Custom

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Geneva Olson said:
I can agree with you to some extent. But I'd like to contend that not showing your taxes don't make you any less transparent. I do think when he talks about transparency he's talking about with the government. not with his personal life. he's telling us what's happening on the big stage and that's what matters. i don't care about his damn taxes. now, his court cases, those are ALL accessable...those would detail people he didn't pay, etc. but even those aren't terrible. I'm actually more interested in his court battles than his taxes. I know he makes money. i know he's made a lot of money. he's also lost a lot.

you know as well as i do, when you own a business you have to take risks..sometimes you lose and sometimes you win. its about staying in the game long enough to succeed.

I admire trump. I think he's withstood a lot of shit from people. Do i think he's perfect? nope. i think he's made some serious mistakes when he's talking to the public. but honestly, i open my big mouth and stick my foot in it all the time. the reason I defend him is because there's seriously something to this trump derangement syndrome. it's real...and the only reason for it is because hillary et all decided to trash talk him so she could win the presidency in 2016. he was a threat no to democracy, but to the deep state.
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You are deep into the cult aren't you? You are excusing theft, paedophilia, the destruction of democracy, the fact that not a single country on the planet can ever trust the USA ever again, the most job loses since covid, the fact that America is diving head first into a depression. And inflation sky-rocketing.
Oh and homeless being rounded up at gunpoint to work for free in prison camps.
While the crops rot in the fields. And billionaires get tax cuts. Your hero promotes paedophiles and has now let one go on work release. And he promised to release the Epstein files. Remember?
You worship the wrong idol.
 
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Snydo

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During most of the first two years of COVID the U.S. had about a twenty times higher death rate per capita than Australia, so it's hard to argue that the quarantine center wasn't effective. The Omicron variant wasn't quite as coroporative.
 
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MikePro

MikePro

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Snydo said:
During most of the first two years of COVID the U.S. had about a twenty times higher death rate per capita than Australia, so it's hard to argue that the quarantine center wasn't effective. The Omicron variant wasn't quite as coroporative.
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are we talking dying FROM covid, or dying WITH covid?
...because it appears the numbers have been WAYYYYY off.

did you know that people died in the Australian concentration camps? ...and it wasn't from covid.
my uncle died in the hospital during covid. admitted for a stroke, and they left him alone in a room & refused family to visit and check on him. ultimately died from septic bedsores because the nurses literally just left him lying there with minimal care and hospital marked it down as a covid death. simply rolling him onto his sides/back throughout the day would have saved his life.
 
JamesLam

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Snydo said:
From what I read, it was a combination of legalized weed, uncertain trade conditions, younger people not drinking like they did in decades past, and yes, the Canadian boycotts played a role.
Canada and EU combined represented 40% of the market, and I would assume a considerable amount of that will never return.
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Maybe the marketing needs to change, like chicken wings and beer. There has to be a push to more popular and acceptable pairing with foods such as sushi, TexMex, Chinese, etc.
 
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