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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How stupid is Kavanaugh comment on refunding the tariffs? It’s like he has no clue how businesses work.

I was watching a cable show and the “guest” commentator referred to Kavanaugh comment on how complicated refunds would be. They said oh it’s billions of dollars and the money has been earmarked or spent.  This is laughable. The money was collected illegally and has to be returned.

Every dollar if tariff collected has a paper trail.[/quote]In the simple case, the tariffed item was a finished good, but, in many cases, the tariffed item was incorporated in some other good, and so, on, until an actual finished good was produced.  E.g. a tariffed GPU might have ended up sold to the ultimate consumer, or on some graphics card that incorporated 30 other chips then sold to the consumer, or in a supercomputer along with thousands of other GPUs.  And intermediaries along the way.[/quote]

And all have a paper trail. Everything is tracked - the item, who paid the tariff, etc. This is like saying the IRS and each tax payer does not know how much taxes they pay each year. It is not complicated. [/quote]Exactly, and refunds can be given through the same systems. None of these tariffs was paid in cash. There are records: what the government charged, and who paid the bill[/quote]

Except post-tariff consumers paid the bill, or much of it, as the cost was forwarded as an increased price at the register.  Inflation, remember?

Please demonstrate how the broad public so impacted are to be made whole, and how those having directly paid the tariff would not achieve double gain, first from the increased sales price captures and then from the full reimbursement of the tariff.[/quote]The broad public is screwed, yes. But that doesn't mean that the federal government should just be able to keep ill gotten gains. Refund the money to whoever paid a tariff and then the companies have to declare the refund as income. Or if an individual has a receipt from buying goods from abroad,  make that deductible on their taxes for 2026 filing , since 2025 filing has already started [/quote]

Another advantage-the-wealthy crusade.  :roll:[/quote]versus an unaccountable federal government? If the county overtaxes you on your property and you win a lawsuit against them, you should get a refund.  Same with illegal federal money grabs[/quote]

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