Yes, but some won't acknowledge that it's already happening (upwards), and they'll criticize the general concept as taking money away from people who earned it. I will tell you that I worked harder for near minimum wage than I do now for above median wage. The people benefiting from the status quo tend to demonize any threat of changing the status quo, and the language used is intentional in order to frame an argument that assumes that their preferred system is the default and normal one.

One of the main criticisms against environmental taxes is that they're regressive. Many of us support those in addition to wealth taxes, so we're in favor of redistribution both to and from the poor. Although perhaps then we could argue we're transferring wealth into the future.

They just lost a huge amount of institutional knowledge.

Taxes, tariffs, and fees, sure.

But even that's just an end-run around publicly staffed and administered enterprises. Why do you even need a private middleman to begin with? Taxation is a means of reorganizing currency, sure. But a nation's real material wealth is in its sovereignty, its industry, and its natural resources.

Rather than letting a handful of grifters and gatekeepers rent-seek off the public, then skimming a vig off the top, we could abolish the landlord class entirely and manage the productive forces democratically.

Ohh god. Please no popular voting to control nation state monetary policy.

Probably spent on ICE

They go to Trump's sovereign wealth fund which he uses to give his allies cushy government contracts.

What you said is true for most countries. But the US dollar is used by countries to pay each other. So most countries have some dollars, and a few - mainly the UK and Japan - have massive stockpiles. They won't like any reduction in the value of the dollar. I read an article that recently, the Japanese shorted US AI companies, driving their valuations down, as punishment for something else Trump did. Such 'trade wars' could escalate if the dollar hyperinflates.

Gorillatines?

Material and influencr rich to be specific.

There are men who have less, know that's enough for them, and let their surplus wealth circulate around their families and communities.

Men who are rich by making other people rich cannot be compared.

There’s levels. When the tariffs are for you friends and fuck the nation it’s broken.

When you can bomb several counties and threaten others and not give a shot that jo public who can’t afford food has to find extra cash for gas …. To fund an illegal war.

Never buy USA again

I think you’re right. I keep hearing about how the stock market bubble will burst, but I can’t help but think that a) billionaires will use a lot of power to resist that and b) if it does, they’ll buy up all the leftovers for cheap and leave the little guy with the true loss

But as long as they keep rebuilding the area and give their soul to Jesus they can do anything.......... Except find the right vein because they're on the left arm 🫪

As we speak?

No, but I am pointing out that corporations and the wealthy do not pay taxes, everyone else does. The tariffs are no different.

it’s much more accurate to call it a consumer expense

Sure, in so far as one man's income is another man's expense.

The federal government cut corporate taxes and otherwise enriched corporations by much more than the tariffs

The Feds also ramped up issuance of debt to cover the deficit spending. But since we aren't adhering to any kind of balanced budget, there's no relation between these policies.

By contrast, the tariff rebates absolutely have a 1-to-1 correlation between income and refund. You're double counting if you claim that you've paid a tariff AND you paid a refund. Your taxes didn't go up to pay for the refund. As you noted, tax rates have only fallen.

Weird to assume accurate math

I'm assuming tariff = refund until I see evidence to the contrary.

I'm not just going to make up an extra imaginary offense because I don't like the real policies from the real people really in office.

What is funny is the fact that it literally is.

At least until a few years ago.

There is a reason people all over the country send their kids to get educated in the US.

Tell yourself whatever you need. But, everybody knew who he is and what he does and the second time around he won the popular vote. Sooo...

Well, it is and if you don't use memes as news source, you could know that 🤷🏻‍♂️

The plan was never to have this repealed by the surpreme court, it was to redistribute wealth from everybody to billionaires via tax breaks.

Would have always been shitty, but now it is shitty in a different way.

good thing the government is wasting all them in another pointless 'not-war' over oil in the middle east

I think I'd much prefer the colonoscopy prep. You're losing freedoms, comforts, and purchasing power, and you're equating the two?