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This is just the citizenry paying double tariffs. First, we bought the higher priced goods. Now, the companies are trying to take our tariff payments again, thi
by gmd63 7mo ago
This is just the citizenry paying double tariffs. First, we bought the higher priced goods. Now, the companies are trying to take our tariff payments again, this time from the government, to "make up" for the tariff money that we had already paid them in the first place.
What should happen is that $X of the budget should be put into escrow for the next administration to use after these criminals make their way out.
- thrance 7mo agoToo bad the next guys will also be completely owned by capital.
- worik 7mo agoYes The system is capital. Unavoidable
- ckw 7mo agoSeems like China avoids it.
- AngryData 7mo agoEhh, they do a little better, but they are very much run by capital now. Most of their politicians are capitalist investors. And while individuals may get smacked down on occasion, as a whole they still follow the desires of capital holders above all else.
- sowbug 7mo agoMaybe triple. (1) paid higher prices, (2) the government will issue debt to refund the tariffs to importers who we already reimbursed through higher prices, and then (3) Congress will use the extra debt from the refunds as justification for higher individual taxes to pay for the 2025 tax cuts for businesses.
- NewJazz 7mo agoAnd the supreme court is to blame for all of this because they decided to invalidate lower court injunctions, reasoning that there was no chance for "irreparable harm"... Yeah, right.
- light_hue_1 7mo agoNo. The people are to blame. Both the people who voted for the criminal to be president. And the people who supported such a horrible Democratic candidate that she couldn't even win against Trump.
- NewJazz 7mo ago1. Nobody supported Kamala as the democratic nominee. 2. The US senate is horribly malapportioned and gates scotus nominations.
- simonh 7mo agoWell, the Democrat apparatchiks that supported her. And the person, and his henchmen and enablers, that implemented these tariffs in the first place. Plenty of blame to go around, but to be fair there's a significant difference between ordering or enabling this debacle and ineffectively opposing it.
- mft_ 7mo agoIf you really want to get to the root cause, on the Democratic side it’s the people who promoted/supported/covered up for Biden when it would have been obvious to anyone close that he wasn’t fit for the purpose any more. And Biden himself, for his hubris. That was why things were rushed and there wasn’t a proper primary. Yes, they could have held a very late/quick convention and would likely not have picked Kamala, but anyone getting the nomination at that late stage would still have been hugely in the back foot.
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- LostInTheWoods 7mo agoSome companies ate the cost of the tariffs. The whole thing is a mess.
- SideQuark 7mo agoTons of goods companies paid tariffs for were inputs for those industries. Instead of being mad at companies that were forced to pay illegal tariffs, who now want to recoup some of that, be mad at the cause of illegal tariffs. Letting the govt keep the money by fighting over who is a victim, hold the govt feet to the fire so they learn not to do this to begin with.
- simonh 7mo agoYou really think Trump is capable of learning such a lesson? This isn't a 'they' situation, it's a 'him' situation. The cronies enabling him may well be cap[able of learning such a lesson, but their noses are too deep in the trough of self interest to care.