meanwhile, the tarriffs i refused to pay to fedex are now a debt in the hands of debt collectors
I’d challenge them as illegitimate given the ruling. Might actually win, too.
So how do they pay it all back?
Of course large companies will get some kind of deal but all the people who actually paid these illegal tariffs will get nothing effectively transferring the money from the people to the companies.
US customers (taxpayers) have paid the tarrifs via price hikes. And taxpayers will now pay more to the gov to refund businesses since Trump treated the tarrifs as a slush fund. ANNDDD will pay for all the resources it will take to unfuck the situation and get the refunds out. AANNNNNDD the prices ain’t coming back down - they’ve found their new floors.
Indeed, average person is getting bent in 4 different ways while the corporations will make out like bandits. Bet it’s feeling really great again in dumbfuckistan right about now.
FYI the tariffs will likely remain, they just have to be introduced in a different form. So 100% don’t expect prices to decrease, and that won’t even be because businesses are greedy.
If this was the fastest they could strike down something so blatantly unconstitutional, their process needs reform. Not that I actually think it was actually the fastest they could do.
He does it twice more and that’ll just about finish his term.
These delays are bullshit.
While there are other ways Trump can still put in tariffs (Section 232 tariffs on steel and lumber stuff are still in place for example)…
This will put an end to Trump throwing around tariffs willy-nilly to get his way. Well, of course he still can threaten tariffs but those threats will be emptier than they’ve ever been.
Edit: See? His first escalation threat is a 10% tax on Americans for any import whatsoever. Not really directed at any country but their own.
So what happens now?
Apprently he already made new tariffs
- they declare a new emergency and do it all again
- Either the government or the companies pocket the tariff money taken from consumers, in another astounding redistribution of wealth.
DOW reaches new highs, Trump and news organizations talk about how good the economy is. Also the government can no longer be questioned by Congress for some reason.
Supreme court as in SCOTUS? This is big. Trump, you went too far. Your very own yes-people decided against you.
I wish they’d be just as critical of all the other fascism happening in the USA.
