General Discussion

Think about it--if they raised $0 they had precisely 0.000% effect on any prices.

Yet we scream daily about how they're contributing to price increases.

NPR, hardly the most uberfascist organization on the face of the Earth:

When President Trump came into office, he promised to fuel an economic boom with a magic bullet: tariffs. They're taxes added to a wide range of imports. And money is coming in, more than $30 billion a month so far.

That was dated Oct. 1, so the 'month' must have been September (or perhaps August).

Oh, to be so well off that I could confuse $30 billion with $0, but I'm just not there yet.

It's only "not real money" if they're forced to somehow pay it all back, even as a large swath of society is held captive to "this is worth your sacrifice, citizens, we salute your valor and heroism" rhetoric.