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Old Crank

(7,312 posts)
11. This complaint is too simplified.
Sun May 17, 2026, 07:58 AM
May 17

Take 3 kinds of businesses. Remember that the tariff is on the imported cost not the sales price.

1 imports fully manufactured items, and sells them direct to the consumer. You can figure out the tariff per unit on each one. Easy. Now how many did they sell. That is easy also. Now how to refund the tariff to the buyer? Gets more complicated. How many buyers? 1, 10, 10K? What is the cost per buyer to refund the money the government forced them to pay?

2. Importer of completed goods that sells to a retailer of some kind. They know how much they paid in taxes per unit. They know how much was added to each retailers bill. They don't know how many were sold. The retailer knows that and they would have to know who the buyers were to refund the tariff. Cash buyers? again what is the cost to refund small amounts to thousands of customers?

3. Businesses using raw materials or partially manufactured goods. Auto makers for one. Your soda cans for another.
They also know what they paid. But how does that get rebated to the end buyer when there could be many links in the chain and added tariffs in the process.

If I ordered something from another country and was hit with a tariff It should be easy to collect my tariff from the government. Other cases are going to be much harder to parse out.

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Taxpayers paid for the tariffs, then paid for the refunds. Irish_Dem May 17 #1
Also, those prices? Bettie May 18 #17
Let this go viral................... Lovie777 May 17 #2
don't forget we're paying for the ballroom, arch and reflection pool vapor2 May 17 #15
The more this shit comes out, the more people vote against his agenda. Keep the faith. Joinfortmill May 17 #3
So The US Importing Companies Got More $ From Us, And Now They'll Be Getting More $.... ColoringFool May 17 #4
How did the importing companies get $ from the US? Old Crank May 17 #12
1.) Consumers aren't getting any refunds. Dream on. 2.) Did you..... ColoringFool May 18 #19
I read it. Old Crank May 18 #20
Everything is going according to plan, gab13by13 May 17 #5
Congress and the Supreme Court should have stopped this before it ever got to this point. ToxMarz May 17 #6
"What's the point of a court ruling something illegal if the people who actually paid never get their money back?" OldBaldy1701E May 17 #7
It's sort of the Robin Hood story, just in reverse jmowreader May 17 #8
Just working families? Uhhh,we retired seniors got screwed too. Bengus81 May 17 #9
Someone educate me. Are we not STILL paying tariffs? tetedur May 17 #10
This complaint is too simplified. Old Crank May 17 #11
Another massive transfer of wealth scheme debsy May 17 #13
Maybe it's not an apples to apples comparison Danascot May 17 #14
The people who paid the government are getting their money back, assuming they apply for it. Ms. Toad May 18 #16
Trump deserves a traitor's treatment purr-rat beauty May 18 #18
Nice grift if you've got the juice to make it happen Torchlight May 18 #21
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