• Oak_Sprout@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    What? The corporations aren’t getting the tariff refunds. Because they already took a payout of 20-30% of the value of the refund from speculators, like the Commerce Secretary’s son Brandon Lutnick, who will be getting the tariff refund.

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    2 months ago

    Same game as the 2008 economic crash. They could have bailed out the mortgage holders…but instead, they bailed out the lenders. The banks would have gotten paid either way, but instead of helping regular people…they just gave the money directly to the banks.

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      2 months ago

      Uh and during that time that these gracious corporations dealt with tariffs prices didn’t go up at all, right? Right?

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          2 months ago

          I appreciate your optimism unfortunately I don’t share it. The companies in America are literally destroying the country while while profits are soaring. You don’t have to look hard to find examples where one hand espouses all the good they are doing for Americans while the other hand undermines the very people they claim to care about. I bet there are some alteristic companies out there but none of the top ones.