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Trump says he'll raise tariffs to 15 percent after Supreme Court ruling

17 points| _rend | 9 days ago |apnews.com

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3eb7988a1663|8 days ago

Standard chaos play. Starts at 10% to swing to 15%. What will it be tomorrow, nobody knows!

bediger4000|9 days ago

Trump is penalizing everyday citizens and taxpayers because SCOTUS said his clearly illegal tariffs were illegal? Am I understanding this correctly?

duxup|9 days ago

SCOTUS has a role in this too. I know folks are cheering on their decision yesterday BUT: Early on they effectively decided that inconveniencing the powerful (Trump) was worse than we the people being illegally taxed for a year and didn't do anything until later / let the case roll through the system. And now ... he's at it again.

His actions are entirely predictable, he has said he would do it, and it means that it SCOTUS sticks to their game plan that lead us to their last decision ... SCOTUS is not relevant and illegal taxes continue while new cases spin up and the SCOTUS majority folds its arms.

In the meantime as individuals who were illegally taxed, I doubt we see a dime back.

duxup|9 days ago

The SCOTUS's largely hands off methods and "let the cases work it's way through the system" effectively means they're out of the game and Trump can do what he wants.