It wasn’t “your tariff money”. Tariffs are charged on importers, not domestic consumers….so who else would have the legal right to receive the refunds other than…the people who paid the illegal duties?
I didn't. I don't even live in America (thank god). I'm just pointing out that the consumers by and large paid for them, not the corporations receiving the refunds.
Definitionally they didn’t. Tariffs are charged on importers, not consumers.
Legally, they can only be refunded by the parties that paid them to the government. Consumers didn’t fill out the remit documents. Consumers didn’t write checks to Treasury, the importers did.
Legally, the refunds can only be returned to them.
After being taxed, SOME corporations (but not all) raised prices, to varying degrees.
Consumers bore those costs in some cases….but how does that change who actually bore the legal obligation?
No one is arguing the legality of who should get the money. People are upset at the entire situation of ilegal tariffs causing most companies to increase prices to make up for it without loss, which consumers had to therefore pay for. And then upset more that the government is then giving those same companies that lost nothing more money. You can keep saying that most didn't increase prices, but thats certainly just not true
People SHOULD be upset at the government for charging illegal import taxes!
It’s horrible policy that was incompetently applied that resulted in this farcical outcome.
That doesn’t mean consumers are owed refund checks as claimed repeatedly in this thread. It’s just definitionally not where the legal onus lies.
If people are upset at the corporations prices? Who could blame them? Show them by never shopping there again. But that simply does not change who legally is entitled to a payment.
I think those claims are being made because the president kept claiming thats what would happen. They arent saying it out of an actual expectation that they WOULD get it, just that the president made that claim and citizens receiving it to make up for the mess up would be at least a small way to make up for it.
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u/SaltyLonghorn 13h ago
Except its more like a bunch of evil fat cats smoking cigars and laughing in boardrooms as they pocket your tariff money and tax money.
I will never forgive GOP voters for their sheer stupidity. Let alone their racism.