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!
How else will we solve the social security issues?
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
Hang on, please tell me there should be a /s at the end of your comment
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!
It’s actually going to businesses that purchased tarrif refund rights packages from Howard Lutnick (Trump’s commerce secretary) and his sons. No joke, look it up.
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?
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.
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.
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.
This part is so fucking sad.
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).
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.
It also seems that he is pocketing the 1 billion fee people are giving himto join permanently.
Refund? Yes, but not only the money, but the job, too.
Hmmm. Class action lawsuit? Can you do that against the government?
It’s happened in the past, but believe the government has to agree to be sued.
They sorta have to agree (because of sovereign immunity). But there are laws like the Tucker Act and the Administrative Procedure Act that already (probably) pave the way for this lawsuit. Additionally, if the government is acting outside statutory authority (ultra vires), sovereign immunity doesn’t protect the same way.
Also, this would almost certainly be heard in the U.S. Court of International Trade, which deals with tariffs and the like, and has its own rules and such. So… it’s complicated?
All the states should sue, then kicker us back the amount at tax time.
Except the welfare red states.
General strike on paying your taxes.
Is taxation theft to you?
If it’s paying for Nazis to curb stomp citizen’s rights granted by the Constitution, while depriving us of the services our tax dollars pay for, while cutting the taxes of folks who will never want for anything in life‽ Fucking absolutely against them. My tax dollars are not the Nazis slush fund for concentration camps.
I applied for a federal job, was given an offer, and had that offer revoked because of Trump’s EO against trans people. This government is actively hostile to my existence and provides me little in return, so yes.
It deprives fascists of funding and breaks the machine of oppression.
When the federal government is illegally withholding funding for programs in blue states, justified based on Fox News fever dreams? Yes, taxation is literally theft. That’s the definition of theft - having money taken from you by force without receiving fair compensation in return. This is the federal government behaving less like an elected government responsible to the people and more like an occupying army. We’re seeing the federal government morph into a tribute empire, where red states militarily occupy and collect tribute from the blue states. The only difference between taxes and tribute is whether you get your share of the money back. When funds are being illegally held for political reasons? You’re damn right taxation is theft.
Tariffs certainly are.
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?
The only things that trickle down are piss, shit and debt.
Time for impeachment
How is this a meme?
