Yup, and when the tariffs go away, they’ll keep the higher prices and pocket the difference.
Wouldn’t it be more news worthy if they were not?
It’s going to be super frustrating when a court suddenly decides in a couple of years that actually these tariffs were illegal all along and the federal government has to give the money back to the businesses and they just pocket all this money
when a court suddenly decides in a couple of years
Good start
that actually these tariffs were illegal all along
We hope
and the federal government has to give the money back
I don’t think that can happen, but it would be nice down the line to-
to the businesses and they just pocket all this money
GOD DAMN IT
You know it’s true. Why would trump push them if it wasn’t some scam? Guys birthday was sponsored by a Bitcoin scammer
Even more frustrating…some companies are putting out bonds that they will pay out when they recover the money they paid to the government for these tariffs. There are members of Trump’s administration that have bought these bonds.
So you’re paying higher prices for everything and Trump’s guys (and likely Trump himself too) are going to profit from it.
Any more detail on the bonds thing or articles?
why hasn’t anyone told about this???
Retailers wanted to put a line item on the receipts calling out the tariff costs and Trump threatened to sue them.
same story with Amazon too, initially there was a note detailing the extra cost of tariffs. needless to say Trump started hurling threats, flailing his arms, crying and shouting.
Shocked Pikachu meme
Who could ever have foreseen something like this happening? Certainly, not I.
Is this not C/leopardatemyface?
Well yeah. Tariffs are taxes and I told people last year I need to save up for the trump tax and most people shrugged it off or gave me a hard time.
I work with international sales, tariffs are my job. But as we know, people don’t like facts or reality.
And somehow, they’re still making record profits!
I want to say “no shit” but then I remember the average American.
But it’s fine, because Cracker Barrel changed their logo back.
That whole thing was so stupid. A bunch of folks hated it because they thought it was woke. A bunch more folks didn’t give the slightest shit but thought it was a terrible rebrand. Even more folks said “Wait, they’re still in business?”
I was definitely in the last of those three categories.
The whole thing is just a cost cutting measure. There’s a reason why all fast food places look the same now… it’s the cheapest way to build a restaurant.
But sure… let’s pretend there must be a politcal reason for all restaurants having the same boring design so we can pretend anything we don’t like is “woke”.
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Well yes. A logo change is very explicitly a marketing stunt to get people paying attention to you.
And let’s not forget the “Look, the tariffs are adding 10% already… what’s an extra 5% on top of that?” tax.
Now they should put up signs next to the prices showing how much of the raise is due to Trumps tariffs.
Trump has already threatened to sue grocery stores and Amazon for listing the tariff, and they’re cowards
Wait what?
Gosh, I thought they were just going to eat the costs, because Taco hereby ordered it.
No shit
