Tariffs and sky high audio prices.

@inna 



I too worry about the plight of so many who have so little, no matter where they happen to be. I am certainly of the mindset that we can cure it at home, generosity isn’t that hard. Regarding the poor, I agree, the income/wealth gap is returning to gilded age spreads.

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Give to the Salvation Army and eliminate the inefficient middleman known as government. 

Frank

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Give to FoFundMe and eliminate the inefficient middleman know has healthcare insurance (who spend25% of healthcare expenditures on administrative Scroogery.)

No matter where you choose to give, its the giving thats important. Go to guidestar.org and research any non profit you desire...that even includes the NFL LOL! You can view several years worth of their IRS 990’s and even view highly compensated individuals in many cases (there are workarounds). But consider starting locally, direct giving. Consider food banks, soup kitchens and homeless shelters. Or local music programs, whatever floats your boat. Earlier this year I got wind that the local high school choir could not afford to hire piano accompanyists so we decided to underwrite that for the year. It would have been easy to complain about why there wasn’t any money for that when I find its even easier to focus on solutions where an immediate impact can be made. Habitat for humanity is another good program.

I was under the impression that a large percentage of usa audio equipment uses Chinese made parts, eg: caps resistors, diodes, transformers. Sorry if you already beat this to death, I don't have time to read gazillion posts on a thread. But it's an interesting subject.