ThePowerOfGeekSupreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow to the president
dizzle18Cool. Will we get our fucking money back? Don’t worry, I already know the answer to that.
anon6789Yes, but it has been accepted as your contribution to the Board of Peace. Thank you for your donation.
At least The Human Fund didn’t actually have George stealing from anyone, it was just him being a jerk. When Mr. Kruger gave him that big check he at least somewhat came clean it was fake. The president taking tax money for his League of Villians is just outright theft like if George would have cashed the check and called the accountant a liar.
He was in the process of his considerations when Kruger calls him into the office to inform him that accounting noticed that the human fund doesn’t exist. George just didn’t have enough time before getting caught to adequately convince himself to cash it.
Lol, you are correct, I just rewatched it. He was debating with Jerry at the dinner about turning it into a “real charity” which quickly devolved into people showering him with praise in order show worthiness of his “generosity” (jeez, this is sounding like how I imagine the Board of Peace will operate…). When Kruger calls him in, he still chickens out and gives the money back unprompted and plays the victim of religious persecution for his father’s celebrating of Festivus instead of Christmas.
I don’t know if George would have went through with it, because his cowardice, paranoia, and desire to not actually do anything likely would have won out, so I still think he’s less evil as he at least somewhat confesses to being a fraud and he returns the money without a fuss, which doesn’t seem like the behavior of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
A trump never pays his debts
Businesses will get refunds, but not any of the consumers who paid higher prices for the tariffed goods.
I doubt we’re likely to see many prices come back down from their tariff-inflated values either.
dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️In very select circumstances, possibly. I got a refund check from DHS/CBP/whoever a while back for some random thing I imported (which turned out to come from Germany, which I only discovered after I bought it…) for which I got tariffed personally. I presume after that particular tariff was retracted and/or struck down.
For the vast majority of consumers buying stuff off the shelf from retailers and vendors who jacked their prices up to compensate for said tariffs, no. Absolutely not. I predict said prices will remain jacked up for the foreseeable future as well, since retailer pricing policies are completely opaque to the consumer, and also notoriously ratchet-like — they tend to only move in one direction.
Oh somebody will get money back. Just not the consumer. I almost wonder if this wasn’t the plan all along. All that money will be refunded to the company that “paid” them as they passed the costs on to the consumer. And don’t think for a second that prices for anything will return to pre-tariff levels. Also makes you wonder if that was also by design.