So let me get this straight, the companies that raised their prices based on Trump's tariffs get to apply for a refund with no requirement to lower prices and pass that refund on to the consumers who actually had to pony up the money at the 'cash register' every day. Once again, corporations get an undeserved bailout while the American consumer gets shafted. Typical.
...and those refunds will flow through Howard Lutnick (and son's) business.
Just more crime. When will Americans stop bending over and taking it from these criminals?
It was supposed to be once the bread and circuses became unaffordable, but we're all so overworked that we don't have the energy to punch up.
Don't worry, it will trickle down.
Like... piss... from an overfilled adult diaper...
An actual useful court should've made this ruling on day 1
“They have made their ruling, now let us see them enforce it.”
Now several companies will sue my government for damages.
yaaaaay
At his White House news conference, Trump announced alternative options, including an immediate 10% global tariff.
Lol, the US is a clown show.
Not a serious country. Just a pedo haven for reality tv stars.
As if that'll stop the orange nonce.
While him and his enablers suffer no consequences then he is defacto above the law
He came back with another one.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/20/us/trump-tariffs-supreme-court
I'm shocked! SHOCKED I tell you!
I am. Sincerely, I'm shocked. This is quite the surprise.
Why? Lutnick's kid had a financial benefit in the tariffs getting overturned. The Epstein class helps each other
It's not the 6-3 ruling I expected at all. Was fully thinking would be 6-3 that it was okay for him to do it not saying he can't
I mean it's such an incredibly unambiguous 9-0 on a legal basis and he still got three nonetheless.
It's not like this court is known for actually following legal basis or the constitution so 3 against not at all surprise
Understand that this is SCOTUS believing they're helping Trump by removing the unpopular tariffs while handing out huge amounts of cash in an election year
Another illegal {insert thing here}?
Oh, wow, is it time to arrest and charge?
Or, will you do nothing just like the 7456 times the fat cunt broke your laws in the last year and you did fuck all?
An illegal executive order isn't a crime, it just doesn't count.
This seems like a job for drumroll+horns CHUCK SHUMER & HAKEEM JEFFRIES
Dynamic duo of incompetence extraordinaire!
At this point I'd prefer if people stopped ignoring the entire reason all this shit is going on- every single last Republican.
This criticism makes no sense. Articles of impeachment require a simple majority in the house and then a 2/3rds majority in the Sentate.
The dems don't have the votes. Jeffries likely couldn't even get it to the house floor for a vote. Johnson wouldn't allow it.
Like we can critize them for giving the Republicans their budget or about 1,000 other issues within their power, but this isn't something they can deliver. Unless a lot of Republicans suddenly grow a conscience
So they are going to pay it back right?……….Right?
To some corporations I'm sure. Not to the consumers that actually paid the cost of them. A lot of corporations bought surplus before tariffs went into effect. Then they raised prices as if the Tariffs were affecting them instantly. Now some will surely get pay backs and double dip in the profits.
This has been and always will be a tax on the consumer and the working class. It is nothing but capital consolidation methods and class warfare. Those loyal to Trump get exclusions and profit from the Tariffs. Those that do not are hurt (all small business and some larger corps that don't play ball).
It is a means of solidifying loyalty to the fascist state.
There are already lawsuits filed for refunds of tariff payments. Of course the money will go to the companies that made the payments. All of us who actually paid them by paying more for basically every consumer good are out of luck.
Wealth transfer from labor to the ownership class.
Yup. This is exactly what these tariffs did.
This was the highest tax increase on the American people in decades. And MAGA idiots cheered the entire time they lost money. Fuck all of them.
Sounds like the system is working as intended.
Companies that made the payments already sold their rights to this refunds to investment funds for cents on the dollar. Now the funds will make shitload of money. And guess who invested in all of it? Yes, people connected to Trump!
https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-refunds/
They straight out robbed everyone.
edit: replaced archive.ph link with archive.org
Yeah, it is kind of like seeing you car that was stolen on the news being returned to the person who resold it from the person who stole your car.
Justice!
Hah! It gets better than that.
We are going to have to pay again in taxes to make up for the new shortfall.
So...
... yeah...
According to the Fed, as of early-mid Jan 2026, you're looking at $287 billion dollars of total Trump tariff revenue.
Also, over the last year, into this one, the Treasury has been massively expanding its General Account, which is functionally the checking account of the Federal Government.
Its around $900 billion right now.
Normally its more like several hundred billion, 200 b, 300 b.
Why is it so large right now?
Well, because the Treasury (Bessent) has decided to just massively shift as much of the Gov's debt refinancing as possible, over to... short term debt issuance, like, 1 Year T bills and even shorter duration notes.
Like uh, just a few days ago, the Gov issued (refinanced) around $212 billion of debt.
So yeah, we had a one day debt rollover that... rivals the entire size of the Treasury General Account basically pre-covid.
Every 5 days (business week), the US Gov is refinancing roughly $600 billion of debt.
... what I am trying to say is that even if the treasury were to somehow pay back around $300 billion of illegal tariff revenue...
Well, that would take a while.
Because the Treasury doesn't have the margin to do that.
... It could very well be the case that Fed would have to print money, to buy the T Bills, so the money in the TGA... could repay the ... tariffs.
That latest $212 billion rollover ?
The Fed had to print, poof into existence, $8 billion of it. And thats without the Fed Gov trying to add another $300 billion into... some... kind of... payment plan?
I don't know man, I'm an econometrician by training, but... to my knowledge nothing comparable to this has ever happened before.
This is not looking so good.
Pay who back? All the citizens this administration fleeced?
If corporations are paid back they aren't going to give refunds to all of their costumers they directly forwarded these costs to.
We all got fucked. Trump fucked us, as well as his own supporters.
So the Supreme Court finally found out what we all already knew?
But a few of them clearly still haven't gotten the memo?
I mean I'm trying to be happy about this news, but it's kind of just more proof how pathetic and corrupt our SC is.
The Supreme Court took his toy away
Good, but prices continue to rise every time the orange dumbfuck yaps about tariffs.
The Supreme Court sided with business over the US government. No surprise there. According to the law this whole action was illegal. I am surprised it was not unanimous and had three dissenters.
Where in the fuck do companies get off thinking the tariffs, paid by consumer, is going to be refunded to them!?
It doesn't matter. Remember all those times when Trump & Co set a tariff percentage, then lowered it a few weeks later? I wonder why? Maybe somebody made a "donation" to his bitcoin account. He got what he wanted.
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Important to note that the ruling just says Trump exceeded his authority in setting the tariffs, not that the tariffs themselves were illegal/unconstitutional. That means that Congress can authorize Trump to continue doing this. The question is whether Mike Johnson and John Thune have the numbers to pass that law. They already both quashed efforts to curb Trump's authority before.
Any other ruling wouldn't have made sense. The issue was not about if tariffs are legal, but rather if the President has the authority to unilaterally set them.
I'm not too worried about additional tariffs passing through congress, though. That would have been the safer approach to try from the beginning if Trump's people thought they could make it work. They opted for this workaround loophole nonsense specifically to go around congress because they had already ruled out the possibility of congressional approval.
I just don't think Trump could ever manage to get enough support from congress. Certainly not with how unpopular the tariffs currently are, and certainly not right before the midterms.
Too little too late supreme court. There's no one left to enforce the decision.
This was planned. Blitzkrieg policies are working as intended.
So the only thing they rule against Trump on is the issue with almost zero human rights consequences. Everything else that is immediately endangering and killing people, no worries!
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