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In reply to the discussion: Jim Beam Shutting Down Bourbon Distillery in Kentucky [View all]patphil
(8,901 posts)They make a a variety of whiskys, wines and spirits.
https://www.suntoryglobalspirits.com/
Read their history on the Suntory site. They're a very wide ranging company, with many brands you've heard of, and probably drink if you're into Scotch, Canadian Whisky, several types of Bourbon, Gin, Vodka, or Japanese Whiskey.
I use to drink Yamazaki, an excellent Japanese single malt whiskey, but it's gone up in price over the past 5-6 years to the point where it's out of my reach.
It's too bad we have such an incredible shithead in the Oval Office. So far, his tariff debacle has cost our economy 10's of billions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of jobs. And that's just the start of it. The longer it goes, the worse it will be for us. Since the tariff is essentially a tax, what's happening is that the middle and lower classes are actually paying a larger percent of the tax burden than they used to. A tariff is designed to shift the tax burden off the corporations and ultra rich, while pretending that it both protects and creates jobs in the United States.
But, in practice, it's costing jobs, while also costing us a whole lot of money.
Remember the "big beautiful bill" gave the rich a huge tax break.
The end result is that the rich get richer and we get poorer.