I feel like in the olden days, when stuff like this happened people would form up into a miltia shaped mob, march down to the rich person's house, and deal with the problem.

Americans are not going to do anything about it lol.

Customers pay the tariffs. And then tax payers (customers) pay for the tariff refunds. Which the corporations pocket because it's too difficult to return it to the customers.

Oh and they are keeping the prices at the same rate as when they were paying tariffs!

Burn them all at the stake.

That's the way it ALWAYS is. Some corporation does something terrible to consumers, and the government fines them a fraction of the profit from the terrible behavior, and then celebrates with a press release about how great they are.

Meanwhile the consumer is still screwed, the corporation still made a profit on their corruption, and the government got their beak wet.

When we take it back, these sorts of corporate fines should be much more onerous (minimum $1 billion per count), including confiscation of entire corporations and entire estates, and the money placed in the "America First Fund" (irony intended), to be the seed money for all the Social program we're going to launch - health care, college/trade school, pre-K, student loan forgiveness, UBI, etc. Use these fines to directly help the people that were hurt by corporate misadventure: the Citizens.

"Fixing America on their dime, while punishing them for their crime" could be the program's slogan.

Considering he keeps "ending" the war on Iran to play with oil prices while he buys low sells high; makes me think the price gouging followed by tariff refunds was the real goal all along.

This is the system working as designed. I'm not sure how anyone missed that.

And while tariffs were in place Amazon was passing on those savings, or lack thereof, to customers. So they mostly didn't see any losses from paying the tariffs. Then they get refunded, and then it's less that the government actually paid Amazon anything, they just gave them a reason to charge people extra in shipping, for no good reason.

Whether those costs were rendered in the shipping cost on Amazon, or by simply marking up the prices so that they could account for those extra costs, doesn't really matter.

Consumers ended up paying this bill. The 650M "refund" was just the government exempting them from costs that the government should not have collected from them in the first place.

Americans actually:

Are they though?

In case your unaware, that was the plan the whole time.

"The Democrats caused this by not letting the tariffs go to reducing my income taxes"

-Future Americans

What in the actual fuck. I hate this fucking administration.

I'm pretty sure you guy's fought a revolution over this...

Well amazon raised prices to cover the tariffs which means people paid it out of their pockets (even though Trumputan advertised that as some sort of trade leverage). And now people's tax money is likely being used to pay this refund too. Overall the net effect might be Americans paying more "tax" than the "communist Europe". I also wonder if Trumputan's family got some lucrative deals out of this because he was the one pushing the buttons.

Man, you are gonna be PISSED when you learn how capitalism works.

Tried so many times to argue why revolution and resistance is right choice here but i've given up by now, it's hard to feel angry or sad at this theft when it's just normal

Sounds like business per usual for Americans.

This headline is well over a year old.

un-possible!

sounds like I'm not properly represented by my government.

I wonder what happened last time this happened...

Duh, anybody with eyes could see that it going to be that way

Are they realizing? Is the American left in a dialogue with Trumo voters to belp them parse this correctly?

who tf gets their news fron a betting site? free advertising

What other reason could there possibly be?