ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online to News@lemmy.world · 5 days agoUS may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1178arrow-down11cross-posted to: usa@lemmy.mlpolitics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1177arrow-down1external-linkUS may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffsarstechnica.comArmchairAce1944@discuss.online to News@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.mlpolitics@lemmy.world
minus-squareAreaKode@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up58·edit-25 days ago Step 1: Tariff everybody! Step 2: Refund the importers. Step 3: Wait for the refunds to trickle down to the people who paid them…
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down2·5 days agoFor what it’s worth, my small business paid upwards of $6k, and we ate the cost instead of passing it on to the customer (who had already preordered the product). It would be a huge win for people like me.
minus-squareThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up36·edit-25 days agoIf it only helped people like you, I’d have no problems with that. My problem is it’ll primarily enrich the guys who orchestrated this. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them | WIRED Alternate And nothing will be done. Because nothing is ever done.
minus-squareDaddleDew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-24 days agoRefund the countries they charged the tariffs from. They did say they were the ones who were going to pay them after all.
minus-square🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoThat sounds almost like a bar joke… Except it isn’t funny, or a joke
For what it’s worth, my small business paid upwards of $6k, and we ate the cost instead of passing it on to the customer (who had already preordered the product). It would be a huge win for people like me.
If it only helped people like you, I’d have no problems with that.
My problem is it’ll primarily enrich the guys who orchestrated this. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them | WIRED
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And nothing will be done. Because nothing is ever done.
Refund the countries they charged the tariffs from. They did say they were the ones who were going to pay them after all.
That sounds almost like a bar joke… Except it isn’t funny, or a joke