[Chloé Palmas]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

You're mistaken. Their factories are all outside Europe.
USA, Missouri, Kansas City
USA, Pennsylvannia, York
USA, Wisconsin, Menomonee Falls
USA, Wisconsin, Tomahawk
Australia, Adelaide
Brazil, Manaus
India, Bawal
Thailand, Rayong
https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/e...locations.html

This might be an example of Fake news but according to WaPO, Trump is now threatening HD with taxes:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.8d37d315a9cc

Now it was obvious that they will leave their production line in the US behind...you start imposing tariffs on nations who supply your parts then it is kind of a given that they will leave and go elsewhere, you kind of factor that in. That is what I was saying about "putting your money where your mouth is" and Trump never seems to be able to do that. No surprise given how full it usually is. (Of shit).

Here though, is an example of Fake News:

This is what WaPo said:

President Trump on Tuesday threatened the iconic motorcycle company Harley-Davidson with severe taxes and predicted a public revolt that he said would eventually put the 115-year-old firm out of business, blasting the Wisconsin company for a plan to move some operations outside the United States as a way to avoid getting caught in the middle of an escalating trade war.

They editorialized and ad libbed this tweet:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...al-collapse%2F

This what the tweet said:

A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end - they surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before!

What he clearly meant (to anyone who has half a brain cell) is that is they moved, HD would lose their aura and be taxed like never before by the authority of the nation that they moved to! ...that is not difficult to work out.

Trump can't do anything to them if they do move, even if Congress acted upon levying taxes on them, it would be a BOA, which is unconstitutional, even under the taxing provision of the IRS.

WaPo is screwing this up.

Not be outdone though, Trump is making an even bigger mess of it:

In his Tuesday morning Twitter posts, Trump wrote that “Harley must know that they won’t be able to sell back into the U.S. without paying a big tax!”

Now, using Fatca the US government can tax Americans on overseas income using OIT but not below a certain amount, and that is only ever at the individual and not corporate rate. WaPo corrected that:

It was unclear what he meant. He has threatened such a tax since the 2016 campaign, but he hasn’t imposed one, and Congress has blocked his efforts to craft such a tax. He could be referring to the tariffs he is attempting to unilaterally impose on imports.

He muddled up tax and tariff, the former of which would be impossible to enact without Congress getting involved (which they won't) and the latter is unilaterally retaliatory from the receiving party.

So WaPo reported incorrectly on what Trump meant, Trump then followed it up with more inaccuracies which they corrected him on, or at least second guessed what he meant and he then retaliated against them for the incompetence which they are yet to rectify / correct etc.

What a fiasco...this level of incompetence and inaccuracy (in both reporting, and policy) must be making Theresa May orgasm.