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.
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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.
Ironically, that is exactly what would happen with Gavin Newsom if he won presidency in even a far cry of a free and fair election.
Gavin Newsom is fighting a billionaire wealth tax in Cali right fucking now. He's shut down universal healthcare in Cali when he had a chance.
We can do better than this scumfuck asshole who believes in nothing. Remember that during the primaries people.
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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.
Oh, so now the guy who has promised to veto a billionaire tax is a populist?
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.
wouldn't holding your breath that long kill you?
That's just propaganda by Big Breathing. You have enough oxygen in your body to last you for the rest of your life!
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Except that money is already gone.
Concentration camps. Ice agents.
Don't forget. Just giving himself a $10 billion paycheck
Put the ice agents in the camps and make them work.
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!
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Best guess is that some corporations might get a refund since they paid the tariffs and they will pocket the money.
It's even funnier than that. People connected to Trump bought rights to get refunds from corporation a year ago for cents on the dollar. Now they will make billions.
I've seen this mentioned a few times on Lemmy but can't find any articles talking about this. Do you have a source? It sounds very believable, but I want to make sure it's true before I start telling people.
Specifically the son of Epstein-file regular and commerce secretary Howard Lutnick. The very same commerce secretary who came up with the tariffs to begin with, but it's completely fine, cause it's not him doing it, it's just his son
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Stop filing taxes. Tea party 5.0. Buy tea instead and literally throw it at them. Like physically, with a cannon.
Only do taxes if the government owes YOU money. If you owe them they can fuck right off.
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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
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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ur telling me taxing Switzerland for having a Woman president isn't a national emergency? Did I mention her voice was bitchy and she was a womans?
WHERE’S THE MONEY LEBOWSKI
The refund isn't for us. It's for his buddies that pre purchased the right to collect those refunds with significant windfalls on both sides of the transaction.
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.
There will be a refund. It will go to the corpos. Newsom will spin this as a good thing.
Oh it's much worse than the way Newsom sanitizes it here. Trump's plan is to personally steal billions from us by sending that tariff revenue to his mock UN "Board of Peace" outside US law, which then gives it directly to him.
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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.
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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).
All the states should sue, then kicker us back the amount at tax time.
Except the welfare red states.
Is this where trickle down economics is supposed to work?
As the companies that receive refunds will pass the money onto the customers who paid them?
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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.
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