General strike on paying your taxes.
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.
Go for it, and good luck.
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?
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?
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. Not 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
All the states should sue, then kicker us back the amount at tax time.
Except the welfare red states.
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!
Yes but the refund is to the businesses that passed the cost of the tariffs on to the consumers.
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.
And now the businesses get to profit from artificially inflated prices. Isn’t capitalism amazing!
I love the sound of that.
But it isn’t happening. Corporations will get a refund. People will not, and the prices will remain elevated.
I’m kind of tired of this “acceptance” of loss. Like, I get it, I don’t think it’s incorrect. It’s just at a certain point I think it becomes a means of a collective justification for inaction. In the same way that this fake shit from Newsom serves the same purpose of inaction.
It feels like the peasants of feudalism just accepting that their share of crop is getting reduced. “Welp, guess we’ll just eat less this winter. Hope Timmy survives the cold”.
I guess I’m looking for this same comment but with rage and anger. The passive doomerism needs to go. Us peasants need to be talking about the best methods for sharpening our pitchforks with every inch of crop they take from us.
At the end up the day. This “truth” is only true for as long as we allow it to be. We should remember that and repeat that truth with every inch they take.
Let me know how that works out for you. Cheers.
I’m not talking about adventurism you twat. I’m not even talking about collective action. I’m talking about showing some emotion and anger at the very fucking least.
This passive acceptance and doomerism is so fucking boring. If you’re not going to at least be outraged can people like you just shut the fuck up?
You’re literally respond with the same peasant brained acceptance. No one’s impressed with your apathy. It doesn’t make you look smart. It makes you look like a coward.
But go ahead. Give me another apathetic one line response. Good luck with it.
The anger will just increase stress and increase the risk of long-term health issues that you’ll ALSO have to pay for out of pocket.
You are simply not allowed to win on any transaction EVER.
BINGO! Once prices go up corporations are not going to drop them. They’ve seen people can pay it and that’s now the new threshold.
It’s a saddening truth.
Just like when many of them nearly doubled prices during those few months of super high inflation a couple years ago. No idea how people just accepted that month or two of 9% inflation somehow meant 150% prices are justified.
Ironically, that is exactly what would happen with Gavin Newsom if he won presidency in even a far cry of a free and fair election.
Gavin Newsom is fighting a billionaire wealth tax in Cali right fucking now. He’s shut down universal healthcare in Cali when he had a chance.
We can do better than this scumfuck asshole who believes in nothing. Remember that during the primaries people.
We really do need people to participate in the primaries in 2 years.
That said, if he wins the primary then I’m going door to door to promote his ass.
Oh, so now the guy who has promised to veto a billionaire tax is a populist?
Except that money is already gone.
Concentration camps. Ice agents.
Don’t forget. Just giving himself a $10 billion paycheck
Put the ice agents in the camps and make them work.
You know, I don’t even care about that. What I do care about is billionaires who have been stealing our wages and wealth for decades. We need a fair living wage, $20/hr at a base minimum ($15/hr in 2015 with inflation is now $20/hr), and it should be more than that.
I’m tired of the oligarchs skimming off our wealth to enrich themselves, leaving most of us barely managing to get by. I’m fucking sick of it.
Refund Trump’s tariff bullshit? Sure, fine, that’s not a bad start, but that’s a drop in the damn bucket.
Time for impeachment
Stop filing taxes. Tea party 5.0. Buy tea instead and literally throw it at them. Like physically, with a cannon.
I’m owed a refund every year. If I don’t file taxes the feds get to pocket that money and throw me in jail. Yay, fight the power!
Out of curiosity and totally unrelated, is it even possible to make munitions out of tea? Like, can you compress it into a sphere and fire it from a 17th century cannon, or would you just wind up with a bang and dense mist of tea?
This got me wondering.
I would be shocked if someone, probably British, had not fired tea from ship cannon at some point or another during the tea trade
Man I wish Mythbusters was still around
Sounds like a question for the hydraulic press guy. See if tea compresses.
I think it would, but I also think it may just create a blockage that makes the cannon sort of explode, hurting anyone nearby?
Tea, regardless of how compressed, would be weaker than the wall of the cannon. So it would be a mist of tea leaves.
Just add water.
I think it would be easier to compress it to the shape of cylinder, not sphere, and technically you can shoot it, but it will will dissembody during the shooting, like projectiles in the shooting, so the tea will travel a cone in space and probably do not much harm because of small weight of the particles.
Only do taxes if the government owes YOU money. If you owe them they can fuck right off.
