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.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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Oh, so now the guy who has promised to veto a billionaire tax is a populist?
Yes but the refund is to the businesses that passed the cost of the tariffs on to the consumers.
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.
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.
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.
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 repeat that with every inch they take.
Let me know how that works out for you. Cheers.
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.
Except that money is already gone.
Concentration camps. Ice agents.
Put the ice agents in the camps and make them work.
Don't forget. Just giving himself a $10 billion paycheck
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
This should be in an Enough Newsom Spam community so we can block it.
Stop filing taxes. Tea party 5.0. Buy tea instead and literally throw it at them. Like physically, with a cannon.
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.
Only do taxes if the government owes YOU money. If you owe them they can fuck right off.
There will be a refund. It will go to the corpos. Newsom will spin this as a good thing.
WHERE’S THE MONEY LEBOWSKI
You can find billing templates online.
Send in your own bill for your personal refund soon, before all that money is gone.