ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online to News@lemmy.world · 9 hours agoUS may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1135arrow-down11
arrow-up1134arrow-down1external-linkUS may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffsarstechnica.comArmchairAce1944@discuss.online to News@lemmy.world · 9 hours agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareAreaKode@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up48·edit-28 hours 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-up32arrow-down2·8 hours 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-up27·edit-27 hours 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-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down11·7 hours agoDoing that you only helped the Orange in bringing in even more tariffs.
minus-squareIced Raktajino@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-27 hours agoHow dare they not screw over their customers? Gawd. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t around here.
minus-square🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoThat sounds almost like a bar joke… Except it isn’t funny, or a joke
minus-squareDaddleDew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 hours agoRefund the countries they charged the tariffs from. They did say they were the ones who were going to pay then after all.
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.
Doing that you only helped the Orange in bringing in even more tariffs.
How dare they not screw over their customers?
Gawd. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t around here.
That sounds almost like a bar joke… Except it isn’t funny, or a joke
Refund the countries they charged the tariffs from. They did say they were the ones who were going to pay then after all.