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

Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by SunshineTheCat on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:37AM (#47262860)

I do find it kinda crazy that we had a specific policy surrounding tariffs (Smoot-Hawley) that was in the center of the worst economic collapse in US history.

And now, less than 100 years later we're like "hey let's try that again!"

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-average-u-s-tariff-rate...

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Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by Spivak on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:58AM (#47263212)

I mean honestly that's about right. As soon as it falls out of living memory people forget why the fence was there and tear it down.

Expect rhymes from the 1930's—an economic depression, tension leading to another world war. Fun stuff ahead.

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Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by righthand on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:05AM (#47273957)

There are more conflicts happening right now than in World War 2. Meaning, World War 3 is already here. I don't know why everyone is pretending it's not happening, the people doing it are calling themselves the Department of War.

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