Ah, your information about Nike isn't quite right.

Nike has never had factories... or they technically do but just in the US for the air bubbles in the shoes.  Nike was originally just an importer of shoes from Japan, and then eventually they moved to have their own designs made in factories owned by other companies in China and Vietnam.  When the news broke in the 70s, and then again in the 90s of sweatshop conditions in those factories (that they never owned) they themselves started inspecting these factories and refused to do business with any factory that wasn't up to their standards (which included fair wages, proper aged employees, reasonable hours, etc).  My understanding is that they solved this problem decades ago, but conservative media still talks about it because they make shoes for a diverse set of customers. 

One thing I'm not sure about with the tariffs, is if it applies to finished products or not.  If Nike ships shoes from Vietnam but assembles the labels and laces in the US, does the tariff still apply?  

I think the answer to a lot of your questions is to increase funding to the IRS, FTC, SEC, etc.  So many rich individuals get away with not paying tax in the US because they are too expensive for the IRS to take to court. For every $1 invested into the IRS, it makes back $5-$9 by enforcing the rich to actually pay their fair share. Obviously lots more investment is needed to enforce companies, but the ROI would be very dramatic. The US could fund so much infrastructure and services if they could force individuals and companies to pay what they are supposed to.

Charity organization spending should be scrutinized... and usually a state's attorney general would investigate any wrong doing, but Trump fired a bunch of attorney generals, so I guess crime is legal now.

Musk's DOGE cut funding against so many agencies that were investigating his companies, which also won't be able to investigate any other wrong doing... so sure he can ask about how public servants get rich, but he's literally the person making corruption so much easier.  $TSLA stock is way higher than it should be, because his own Musk Foundation is buying call options to pump up the stock, one of the many, many things he was being investigated for, which now, of course, won't be investigated.  He told Tucker Carlson that he was going to jail if Trump didn't get in, and this is what he was talking about.

I don't cry about corporations coping tariffs either, but all those additional costs at every step of the supply chain get passed onto the consumer, so the people living paycheck to paycheck are the ones that will suffer the most. 

I hold Nike in high esteem but why would a reputable company like that be involved in such kind of ma our. And I want to believe that this is an open secret, is there no agency or laws to put these type of things in check….comapnies like that  should be prosecuted 

There are actually might be more of that in the future in a round about way.  Vechain is a blockchain and token that has been around now.  The key use case is for carbon emissions, but I think it has the potential to bring some transparency to all parts of the supply chain.

It is very bad to hear about that because those people working there will suffer before another job, staying at home without income is very bad

Thank goodness for decentralized blockchain being a neutral arbitor of transparent transactions for finance and other smart contracts! But even then, when we see things like corrupt memecoins, celebrity rug pulls, and tracable insider accounts before crypto PR statement, bad actors are still everywhere in the system. Not to mention scam, phishes, and wallet draining links lurkingin plain sight. Still so much more to do!

Refreshing take on the situation! In the US, lefties are disclosing to anyone in listening distance just how much they have recently lost in the stock market. They do this to punctuate what they hate about the current president. I can calculate approximately how much they still have with that info, and they still have considerable assets, but all they can see is the 200k less that they have now. Honestly, it's embarrassing. 

>it is safe to assume that a lot of the government wastage isn't just ineptitude, it is corruption.

and has been through a great many administrations, Republican and Democrat alike. This is yet another *distraction,* the most recent in a near constant stream of distractions. Trumpers still love Trump, lefties still hate Trump, nothing there has changed one bit. Harris would have instituted price controls, Trump has instituted tariffs. Neither has ever combatted the price of goods to consumers. The Fed will continue to counterfeit money, governmental agencies will continue to squander tax payer money on things this administration *does* support, and inflation will continue. 

I could go on here. I won't. I'm sick of how easily Americans are tricked by these deceptive acts. 

> I suspect that a lot of the "upstanding citizens in office", wouldn't be so keen to show their flows. Yet the same people demand to have unbridled access to ours.
>> They want to know everything we do, all our secrets, every bit of dirty laundry, so they can use it to their advantage. Yet, have set up a system where there is no reciprocity.

# And then let's talk about FATCA & CRS.
https://youtu.be/3capKnik0Lc

>Musks's "how'd they get so rich?" question for public servants, is very much valid.

He’s scattershot with that though. He recently implied that a federal judge he doesn’t like must be corrupt because he owns an expensive house but didn’t mention that the judge had spent years making a damn fine income with a large law firm and took a huge pay cut to become a federal judge.

I think that there is nothing positive that will come out of these tariffs! The whole idea is based on poor understanding of economy and while this new administration is making claims of meritocracy in reality it is a team of underperformers knee deep in cronyism and nepotism.  

Companies like Nike move factories for cheap labor, then cry when tariffs hit. They should start with treating workers right. Sadly the business owners seek profit over well being of their employees and are probably looking forward to the day they get robots for even cheaper labor 

As tax is cut before our salary is paid, we are piece of cake for them. However, a company has chance to evade tax before the tax year.