We're never fucking financially recovering from this administration
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And then the businesses will pass that refund onto the consumer, right?... Right?
Spoiler alert: even if Donny loses this battle he won’t pay anyone anything he never has and never will admit to losing or owning anything to anyone.
It's not Donny's money. What will happen is that importers will pass the tariffs onto consumers, as they pretty much have to, then the tariffs will be overturned and the money given back to importers, thus robbing regular people once again and transferring wealth to the capitalists.
I doubt the importers will be refunded. Obviously if they were, 90%+ will not refund their customers because why would they? I can imagine class action lawsuits down the road, but honestly I predict the supreme court will overturn any lower court rulings and let him tariff away, saying it's the congress's job to reign him in since "it's their prerogative" or some such, in a 6-3 ruling. If they wanted to stop the tariffs, the majority will argue, they could simply cancel them.
I obviously grasp the injustice, but I can't imagine what the basis of a class action would be. If you agree to buy a product for $5 and they supply said product, the courts aren't going to care if their cost for it was $4 or $2. There is no constitutional right to suppliers with low profit margins.
If there was a tariff fee in the invoice, there would be standing.
That's right. He won't pay us back because he has already launder the money into his own pocket
Am I getting a refund on the higher prices I'm paying because of tariffs?
Nah you get the bill citizen. Don't worry, glorious leader will have another illegal act for you to pay the fine for soon too
yeah its like fuck that. do like the covid checks.
The tariffs will go away, but the companies have realised that you're okay with paying $10 for something that used to cost $8 anyway so you'll be paying $10 from now on
I'll just remind everyone that the people making those ghoulish decisions have home addresses. Just normal homes in normal neighborhoods, most often without any extra security.
Be a shame if they suddenly realized there were consequences for social murder.
The only solution is to confiscate all wealth over $100 million, and use it to establish Health Care 4 All, free college/trade, UBI, minimum living wage, public services, etc.
Come to think of it, we should do that anyway.
The world would be a better place.
Until they decide to change it again in 3-6 months.
They've been shrinkflating the shit out of everything so much.
I've recently noticed a stick of deodorant from Costco seems to be the same (already shrunken over the years) plastic shell with less actual deodorant in it.
It's all about seeing how little we're willing to accept, and then conditioning us to accept even less.
lol
People haven't caught on to the grift yet. One of the people in the committee who runs the tariff decisions literally runs a financial/law institution that since the tariffs started, has been contracting with companies to pay a portions (10, 20, 40%) of the tariffs to "ease the load on the companies" but they retain the rights, in the case of what is going on i.e. tariffs being recalled and paid back, to take 100% of the tariff payback.
So a government official is steering the tariff policy to essentially steal money from companies with some alight risk of the tariffs not getting overturned. Crazy grift.
If you have a source for that could you post it?
All that money will go to the businesses, you’ll get a coupon for $1 off and a free credit check.
Wouldn't surprise if this is part of the scam. Put on tarrifs, hike prices. Let the customer pay and then give companies a rebate with tax money. So the average citizen is charged twice. And of course those price hikes will only go partially down. So the consumer keeps getting screwed.
Hmm, sounds like politics made for billionaires, hmmm.
Soon "See, this is yet another example of why we can't trust the government to do anything right and why we should defund and shutter all of our public institutions." - moderate pundit on well respected mainstream news channel
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Eehhh, consumers paid this, not the businesses. This way businesses would essentially get a bonus
Well, consumers paid first and foremost, but businesses lost revenue because consumers kinda stop buying shit when it doubles in price - other than essentials, of course. It's also easier to pay a bunch of businesses than to pay 300 million Americans. Oh wait, they've already done the latter, so how about do that again and people can spend the money to buy more shit from said businesses and everyone wins?
That's the point of Republican business support. Remember COVID, where businesses got money to "survive"?
None of us will see any money refunded. Remember that this is all planned out to make products more expensive for americans, so we get used to the higher prices. Then the companies with hundreds of millions in profit can make more profit when costs for them go down, they keep our prices the same and also SHRINK the size of the product.
Corporations are stealing from Americans every day and politicians are all in on the scam, so no one will do anything about it.
"Look, we lowered prices!" -- ignoring that the new "lower" prices are still higher than the pre-tariff prices.
Not only will the consumers never see a dime of any of the money if it's refunded, the companies aren't going to lower prices because you've already absorbed the price shock.
Right. Everything today is about softening you up. They say, we will kill you—and you panic—then they roll it back to just losing an arm, and you’re happy about it.
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How far does this refund go? My distributor paid the tarrifs and then passed that cost onto me, which I passed onto my customers.
Will my customers, distributors, or myself be refunded? I assume just my distributor since they directly paid the tarrif. And I doubt prices will come down when tarrifs end, so everything is permanently more expensive for no fucking reason, and the top middle man just boosted his profit margin through the roof.
So that would mean that the Trump tariffs were sending American money overseas for no reason. I doubt it'll actually happen, but holy shit is Trump an incompetent idiot.
No, the US company recieving the import pays the tarrif to the US government.
But yes, Trump is an idiot.
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Oh so we get to pay twice then. Great.
So the idiot who managed to ruin every business he ever owned created an absolute clusterfuck running the US, who could've known?
Hey now, he only serially ruined businesses in order to enrich himself. Dodging taxes and shit like that makes him a good businessman, actually. Just ask my old boss. He'll tell you all about trump's genius business acumen in excruciating detail all day long. Yes, he does own his own business, no it's not doing well but he's got a corvette, so he's pretty sure he's right.
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That money should go to us because the business passed the price increases on to us!
The businesses will raise a lawsuit that the money is theirs and you will lose again.
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how would refund like this even work? Many businesses closed shop entirely due to these tarrifs, could they sue the government too? This would be crazy and this massive overhead risk could block the entire thing.
This is why huge policy changes are discussed and planned for years. One guy being able say "Tariffs starting on Monday!" is fucking idiotic.
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Small businesses, back of the line. Gotta make sure those billionaires don't lose out first.
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much like all the other illegal shit dumpy mcshitpants has done, who is gonna tell him he can't have his big boy tariffs?
Surely the price hikes will reverse at that point and won't just remain higher indefinitely causing another price/price inflationary spiral.
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