The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Unlawful Tariffs. Now It Says It Can’t.
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When companies sued to block Trump’s IEEPA tariffs last year, one of the key arguments they made was obvious: if these tariffs turn out to be illegal, we’ll never get our money back. We…
  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Hey, CBP has plenty of new manpower and funds available within their sister organization ICE to process these refunds. They can send these knuckleheads away from terrorizing civilians to where they’re needed, in the tariff refund processing department.

    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      14 days ago

      You would probably need a 4th grade level of proficiency in math to calculate the refunds. They clearly aren’t qualified.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Hey, we can refund these tariffs at will, so you don’t need an injunction!

    We can’t pay back shit, and even if we could, we can’t figure out who gets how much. Oh well.

    I think every lawyer that argued the first should be held in contempt and disbarred.