BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Tariff Rebates
De:       Aaron Thomas
Data:     Mon, 9 Mar 2026 09:17:42 -0700
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 BH> AT> The US gov collected more than 200 billion dollars from tariffs. It di
 BH> AT> cost me a penny. It hurt foreign corporations the most and now Obama's
 BH> AT> sons want to compensate them for it.
 BH> 
 BH> The cost of the tarrifs was not paid by the foreign manufactures and was
 BH> passed down to US consumers.

I hear what you're saying, and I hear the media saying the same thing, but hearing and seeing are 2 different things. Prices on things that I buy haven't
gone up since Trump took office, and my electric bill went down.

 BH> The only way tarrifs would not affect US consumers is if US
 BH> manufacturing was ready to step in an produce the same products here on
 BH> US soil, which it has not bee able to do since the late 1980's.  It
 BH> would take several decades for US manufactuing to move that capability
 BH> back to the USA, and even then the cost of labor alone would be
 BH> prohibitive.

I just don't see it. Someone said "cellphones will quadruple in price" and I just got a Samsung Galaxy A17 for free from Tmobile. What are you buying? Lamborghinis? Rack servers? Toys with lead paint?

 BH> This doesn't even touch the fact that SCOTUS deemed the tariffs illegal.

But the money has already been banked, and new tariffs went into affect just a few days after their ruling.

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