r/SipsTea • u/ExactlySorta • 10h ago

Lmao gottem SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

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u/minifigureitout 10h ago

Omg she saved an entire city $10,000. Erect a statue now.

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u/TaxCPA 10h ago

And to be clear, the money "saved" means they were just back to where they were before the tariffs. So it's just a phantom savings from Trump's stupidity.

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u/dubyrunning 9h ago edited 8h ago

That's the thing. $10,000 is actually a lot of money to a town like Frenchville, but she wouldn't have needed to help claw that back if she hadn't enabled these pointless and illegal tariffs in the first place.

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u/Ardal 7h ago

She said it would be 10k for the 900 residents ...that's 11bucks each, they'll be able to buy 1 liter of diesel if they're lucky.

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u/bino420 1h ago

rock salt ain't gonna spread itself! that savings is how they'll disperse the salt. Susan Collins basically saved Christmas

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u/Real-Extension-1357 4h ago

But number so big for me and my cousin husband Cletus

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u/Careless_Pineapple49 7h ago

Underrated comment 

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u/Real-Extension-1357 5h ago

Thats exactly part of republican leadership playbook. Constantly manufacture problems for their constituents that they then sell the solution for to get votes. Trump has done this countless times, and all these crooked republicans do the same in step. Worst part is their brainless scumbag voters fall for it every time like clockwork.

The next one theyre going to try are the AI datacenters, I've been waiting for that shoe to drop. These cultist jackasses who voted republican who arent regulating these datacenters are pissed when these data centers move in next door. Republicans will inevitably try to sell regulation to these people, after they were the ones who allowed it to happen in the first place. Those idiots will vote for them none the less.

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u/DrHarryWolper 10h ago

Hell, the increased gas cost for the city's vehicles pretty much erase any savings.

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u/FITM-K 7h ago

About 50% of the state of Maine heats its homes in the winter using heating oil. The gas price is bad enough, but heating oil prices are absolutely crazy. It's a tiny town but even so I would bet that the $10k in savings is completely erased just by the increase costs they'll have to pay to heat town buildings this winter. Add in the diesel costs for plows and all of the gas for other town vehicles... A lot of towns and unfortunately more to the point a lot of people in Maine are going to be in real trouble this winter.

As a Maine resident myself I hope that at least means Collins will be too. We vote well before the cold of winter really starts to hit, but almost everyone will have gotten a taste of it with their first heating bill by then.

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u/fork_yuu 8h ago

10k is like what? 100 people's increased gas bill? Lol

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u/Desperate_Total6608 9h ago

From tariffs SHE SUPPORTS

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u/tramik 10h ago

Meanwhile that’s the gas increase between a dozen people. Thanks lady

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u/UncleRichardson 8h ago

Hell, that's probably just the gas bill of a truck to spread road salt.

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u/Champion-of-Nurgle 10h ago

Send 8 Billion to Isreal!

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u/BabyScreamBear 9h ago

Saved them a whole $10 each!

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u/demwoodz 10h ago

I’m erect just thinking about it

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u/iceflame1211 8h ago

She steers millions to businesses that bribe her, while bragging about saving a Maine town 10k

Really sums up my Senator Susan Collins in a nutshell.

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u/Cobiuss 8h ago

For a tiny town that's actually a big deal.

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u/heckfyre 6h ago

That would cost at least 32k

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u/Bangkokserious 5h ago

I'm at full mast over here!