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This is going to be such a continued mess. Refund it to the companies that paid the tariffs, it's quite the windfall. Consumer refunds ain't gonna happen. Economically, under usual times, the best thing to do with it would be to pay off some national debt with it, the deficit is out of control. But with $38T of debt, nothing really makes a dent.
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> Consumer refunds ain't gonna happen

If you actually paid the tariff you’re eligible. I got some surprise bills that I paid and didn’t sell off—I’m looking forward to being refunded.

Put another way, consumers who bought from an American retailer are being punished relative to those who paid an overseas seller.


Just got hit for $60 today from JLCPCB.

I definitely have the receipts…


Agreed. I'm hesitant to give money back to companies that have already passed the cost of tariffs on to the the consumer. But I'm 100% against the government keeping money it took illegally. And the court can only require that the money be refunded to those that paid the tariffs. Therefore I am ok with that.

Not passing another huge tax cut would go a long way towards helping the debt problem.

Or just running the economy into the ground until it doesn't matter how many dollars anyone owes anyone because there's nothing you can buy with them.



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