I love the sound of that.
But it isn't happening. Corporations will get a refund. People will not, and the prices will remain elevated.
BINGO! Once prices go up corporations are not going to drop them. They’ve seen people can pay it and that’s now the new threshold.
It’s a saddening truth.
Just like when many of them nearly doubled prices during those few months of super high inflation a couple years ago. No idea how people just accepted that month or two of 9% inflation somehow meant 150% prices are justified.
I'm kind of tired of this "acceptance" of loss. Like, I get it, I don't think it's incorrect. It's just at a certain point I think it becomes a means of a collective justification for inaction. In the same way that this fake shit from Newsom serves the same purpose of inaction.
It feels like the peasants of feudalism just accepting that their share of crop is getting reduced. "Welp, guess we'll just eat less this winter. Hope Timmy survives the cold".
I guess I'm looking for this same comment but with rage and anger. The passive doomerism needs to go. Us peasants need to be talking about the best methods for sharpening our pitchforks with every inch of crop they take from us.
At the end up the day. This "truth" is only true for as long as we allow it to be. We should remember that and repeat that truth with every inch they take.
Let me know how that works out for you. Cheers.
Oh, so now the guy who has promised to veto a billionaire tax is a populist?
Except that money is already gone.
Concentration camps. Ice agents.
Put the ice agents in the camps and make them work.
Don't forget. Just giving himself a $10 billion paycheck
Yes but the refund is to the businesses that passed the cost of the tariffs on to the consumers.
And now the businesses get to profit from artificially inflated prices. Isn't capitalism amazing!
If you paid the tarrif directly to the government then you have a chance for a refund. If you paid for higher prices that were passed onto us don't hold your breath for that refund.
The Supreme Court actually ruled that it must be given back. Who does it go to?
The corporations who 'paid it'. Not the people who paid the increased price but the companies who paid the tariff. So hundreds of companies are about to get a massive influx of money, once again courtesy of the American taxpayers.
Are you winning yet, America?
I think you are 100% right. Some governors are stating damages .. they have sent formal letters to Trump to collect on the debt owed. We will see where that goes.
If they weren't so incompetent, I would have thought it was fully planned to end up like this.
Whoever paid the customs duty. Importers, wholesalers, etc. They may have language in their contracts which requires price easing, rebates, or even pay packs to their customers in an event like this. Those commercial sellers are unlikely to pass the refund any further (if they get any money at all).
Posts like this show how economic messaging has become central to politics. At the end of the day, most people just want affordability and clarity about who’s responsible for what.
1992, a Clinton campaign catchphrase was, "It's the economy, stupid" and the New Deal in 1933 was about "economic messaging". In 1890 Republicans lost big time in part due to the McKinley tariffs. Economic messaging in the U.S. has been central to politics for far longer than living memory.
You know, I don't even care about that. What I do care about is billionaires who have been stealing our wages and wealth for decades. We need a fair living wage, $20/hr at a base minimum ($15/hr in 2015 with inflation is now $20/hr), and it should be more than that.
I'm tired of the oligarchs skimming off our wealth to enrich themselves, leaving most of us barely managing to get by. I'm fucking sick of it.
Refund Trump's tariff bullshit? Sure, fine, that's not a bad start, but that's a drop in the damn bucket.
This should be in an Enough Newsom Spam community so we can block it.
Refund? Yes, but not only the money, but the job, too.
Hmmm. Class action lawsuit? Can you do that against the government?
There will be a refund. It will go to the corpos. Newsom will spin this as a good thing.
Time for impeachment
Stop filing taxes. Tea party 5.0. Buy tea instead and literally throw it at them. Like physically, with a cannon.
Out of curiosity and totally unrelated, is it even possible to make munitions out of tea? Like, can you compress it into a sphere and fire it from a 17th century cannon, or would you just wind up with a bang and dense mist of tea?
This got me wondering.
I would be shocked if someone, probably British, had not fired tea from ship cannon at some point or another during the tea trade
I think it would be easier to compress it to the shape of cylinder, not sphere, and technically you can shoot it, but it will will dissembody during the shooting, like projectiles in the shooting, so the tea will travel a cone in space and probably do not much harm because of small weight of the particles.
Man I wish Mythbusters was still around
Sounds like a question for the hydraulic press guy. See if tea compresses.
I think it would, but I also think it may just create a blockage that makes the cannon sort of explode, hurting anyone nearby?
Tea, regardless of how compressed, would be weaker than the wall of the cannon. So it would be a mist of tea leaves.
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