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Glad to see this. I like him and dare I say- I’d like to see him run for President. I think he would do a good job.

It's the electronic era. I'd bet I have records on about 99% of what I've spent since COVID.

Heck, between the archived logs of the e-commerce servers at Amazon, Costco, Walmart and Target, I'd bet they could probably refund half the money right on to the credit cards used to buy the stuff... if they really wanted to.

The importer of record paid the tariffs. That is it. Full stop. They get the restitution. How they mitigated that cost through either increased prices, eat it, push back on vendors, rationalization of operating costs, what the **** ever. The importer of record paid the tariffs.

This bit of tomfoolery by the Governor of Illinois insults our intelligence as much as Trump saying foreign nations pay the tariffs.

Every one of these people are getting on my nerves with their performative horseshit.

……” Research by Harvard University’s Gita Gopinath and University of Chicago Booth School of Business Prof. Brent Neiman offers an early empirical view on what tariffs are actually doing to the U.S. economy. They found that implemented rates have been lower than the announcements have suggested, but also that U.S. buyers—not foreign governments or offshore suppliers—are picking up nearly all the cost.”

And the consumers paid them.

We're I'm at, we pass tariffs down the line, and so do our customers. No way in hell we're eating that cost in this environment. And eventually, it's the end consumer who picks up the tab. Who actually paid the initial tariff duty is irrelevant. If we did simply count it as additional cost of sales and flushed it to our bottom line, well, there's goes some headcount we can't afford and capex we can't afford either. Do you think there's some economic impact from THAT?! Jebbers.

Speaking of getting on one's nerves.

You can’t beat willful stupidity.

Those numbers are considerably different than each other.

Trump has ripped us all off.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Has E. Jean Carroll ever gotten her money?
tRump will be long dead before any money is doled out. Uff. Can't be soon enough..
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I would not be surprised at all if a good chunk of it made it into the pockets of Trump and his billionaire cronies.