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"Trump could have done the smart thing and used the Supreme Court’s ruling as an off-ramp from his disastrous tariff policy—and then blamed the Court for any continued economic fallout.
Instead, Trump lashed out and alienated the 'swing' members of the Court, including a critical vote from Justice Gorsuch, all while reinstating tariffs for up to 150 days and forcing the GOP-led Congress to vote on them as voters focus on the midterms."
"This reporting has created the false impression that the temporary 15% measure is on firmer legal footing than the tariffs that were just struck down by the Supreme Court. In reality, the new tariffs are just as illegal as the ones they replaced."
"Why this desperate attempt to keep tariffs high? A MAGA loyalist would say it’s to preserve what those illegal tariffs have accomplished. But even before they were struck down, the tariffs had achieved none of their stated goals. In fact, they had put those goals further out of reach. ...
It has been clear from the beginning that a primary motivation for tariffs was that they empowered Trump personally."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/9
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-zombie-tariffs
"They allowed him to punish governments he didn’t like, demand subservience from other countries as the price of lower tariffs, and offer waivers and exemptions to companies that put money in his own pocket. And maybe Trump can’t bear the thought of losing that power."
"We could hope that the Supreme Court smacking his hand would serve as a lesson for Trump, but, as his retaliatory 15% global tariff shows, he just won’t learn. We should all remember that when he tries to sell us all a bill of good[s] Tuesday night."
~ April Ryan
#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating #StateoftheUnion
/11
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/americans-and-the-supreme-court-agree
"A bad policy choice was made. The courts say it exceeded legal authority. The costs landed overwhelmingly on consumers. And the refund structure is tilted toward corporations.
This is the moment for a new kind of populist demand.
This is not performative outrage, or a culture-war distraction. It’s a single, simple civic insistence: Return the money to the people who paid it."
~ Lawrence Winnerman
"As we wait for however many months and years of our taxpayer dollars going towards courts telling Trump he can’t do what he just did, as we have for the better part of the past decade of our lives, forward-thinking companies and states are already lining up for a slice of some $133 billion in refunds. Will you, Kevin and Karen Consumer, ever see any of your money again? LOL."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/13
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-gonna-ignore-mean-supreme-court
