Trump tariffs: How island of penguins and seals ended up on list
Trump tariffs: How island of penguins and seals ended up on list
The remote Heard and McDonald Islands haven't been visited by humans in almost a decade.
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My conspiracy theory is that some Australian company is evading taxes or laundering money by routing it through Heard Island and it shows up as a small amount of import/export dollars.
My head canon was that three years ago, we took out the trash, but everything needs to be accounted for on some budget - as it was someone else’s trash there was a transfer taking place so legally imported
It's got to be something like that, there was something like $1.3m of machinery exports from an island populated by penguins. Someone was doing something naughty, and whilst the way these tarrifs are calculated is idiotic, it's fun that it's exposed sonething like this.
Lol, I'd be so pissed if my tax evasion scheme got discovered because of some Trump tarrif AI hallucination.
Seriously. Can you imagine, you've had this process running quietly for years, and it's getting you round some awkward tax or import restriction somewhere, you're making a tidy extra profit, and you don't even feel too bad about fidfling the paperwork a bit, after all, who's going to notice, a bunch of flightless birds? Then along comes the orange idiot and his cadre of fascists and accidentally expose you because they don't understand how to rationally calculate tarrifs and just get an intern to copy and paste from the nearest LLM.
It's laughing at this sort of thing that's jeeping me sane right now.
Idk why, but my first thought was that it was cia/Contras type thing where the person trying to hide something was a government entity.
