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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump rage-tweets lie that foreign companies pay tariffs, says those who don't support them are Anti-American
In a rambling Truth Social post published shortly after midnight Sunday, the president revived his fiction that foreign companies pay tariffseven though the duties are levied on U.S. importersand said anyone who doesnt support them is anti-American.
Those opposing us are serving hostile foreign interests that are not aligned with the success, safety and prosperity of the USA, Trump wrote. They couldnt care less about us. I look so much forward to the United States Supreme Courts decision on this urgent and time sensitive matter so that we can continue, in an uninterrupted manner to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
But after two key conservative justices sounded skeptical on the governments position, the president has repeatedly lobbied the court via social media post.
Despite the massive amount of money being made by the United States of America, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, as a direct result of Tariffs being charged to other countries, the full benefit of the Tariffs has not yet been calculated in that many of the buyers of goods and products, in order to avoid paying the Tariffs in the short term, STOCK UP by purchasing far more inventory than they can use in order to avoid Tariff payments in the short term, he wrote Sunday night.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-frets-about-his-supreme-court-tariff-battle-in-late-night-rant/
bucolic_frolic
(53,518 posts)Always the same.
surfered
(10,629 posts)spanone
(140,822 posts)enigmania
(393 posts)Walleye
(43,447 posts)We definitely shouldnt be judged by how much money we take in. How many services we provide is what we should be judged by and how well we govern. You know we the people.
ProfessorGAC
(75,492 posts)...in this case the revenue doesn't come from where he claims, so the government isn't making any money other than by pulling it from other segments of the economy.
I agree "making money" is not the function of government, but no money is actually being made.
Also, he claims "hundreds of billions". His own Treasury department is predicting $192 billion (no, I don't trust that number), so "hundreds" is under TWO hundred.