Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130B in Tariffs

Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by jacquesm on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:20AM (#47262589)

You have to present figures when you're arguing the hard-to-prove side of something not when it's plain obvious that business are not in a position to deal with such shocks in the market without having to reach for capital. This is not normal. Typical operating margins of business is anywhere from 5 to 20% with outliers in the digital domain but that's not the part that we are talking about here.

Anyway, you want figures, well, here are some figures:

https://marketrealist.com/why-did-700-bu/

I'm sure there are other sources, better ones, worse ones but they all tell roughly the same story: willy nilly tarrifs have a negative effect on one's ability to operate a business. Businesses like predictable, stable climates to operate in.

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Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by NetMageSCW on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:04AM (#47263317)

There’s a long way from businesses like predictable stable climates (and that ship has long sailed) and business won’t survive. There’s no reason to believe the latter is true.

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Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by jacquesm on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:18PM (#47264375)

At a guess you are not operating a business that adds value to real goods subject to overnight surprise tariffs then.

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