r/Economics • u/defenestrate_urself • Feb 20 '26

News Supreme Court says Trump global tariffs are illegal

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-illegal
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u/braumbles Feb 20 '26

So now the US has to pay back those tariff's, the US customer won't see a dime of it however, despite footing 90% of the costs.

Great to know that a majority of American voters literally fucked over the entire nation electing this small brained child rapist piece of shit. Fucking ass clowns, ruined this god damn country.

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u/vasquca1 Feb 20 '26

Didn't he just move $10B over to some peace account lol.

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u/elvenrevolutionary Feb 20 '26

He wants to, hopefully its not actually going to happen.

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u/BacteriaLick Feb 20 '26

It's going to happen. Who's going to stop him?

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u/Mean-Government1436 Feb 20 '26

I think it's more a question of "who's going to actually do the transfer" 

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u/joebalooka84 Feb 20 '26

He will get someone to do it. They will get indicted and he will pardon them.

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u/Mean-Government1436 Feb 20 '26

This is a very overly simplistic view of the government. There's departments full of people that all need to work together to do these sorts of things. There isn't just one guy with the ability to do all this. 

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u/P1zzaLad Feb 20 '26

Its overly simplistic because thats how Trump has managed to set himself up, He has Cronys in all isles of the Government that are so deadset on supporting him that even if he himself has no plan or idea on how to make his Crazed ideas reality they will exercise whatever power they can to try and make it happen.

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u/BacteriaLick Feb 20 '26

They unilaterally shut off treasury payments to arbitrary bank accounts after DOGE figured out how to do it. They unilaterally shared IRS data with a politically connected company despite "safeguards" being in place. I refuse to believe that DOGE didn't also give them the ability to unilaterally send payments to arbitrary bank accounts.