"The biggest problem with education in the US is the educators. There is no getting past that. Record spending per pupil"
Too bad you know nothing about anything. Educators are buying school supplies because they don't have enough budget to run their classes. If you actually knew any teachers you wouldn't talk this ignorant shit. It's administration and consultants that are eating up all of the funding.
Which explains bsky, what a bugfest.
Nothing infuriates a socialist more than individual liberties.
Nothing triggers a capitalist douchebag who doesn't care about other people faster than hearing someone say that an economy should work for all its citizens, not only the privileged.
It might be, if demand weren't outstripping supply in most of the world.
As such, that's a truly crap pronouncement.
This is the age of AI-driven scarcity.
1. A fair price is a price that two parties agree to assuming no duress caused by the other party
You're ignoring duress by society, of which both parties are a part, making it an inseparable party to the exchange.
Hahhaahahahhahaahhahahahahhahaha
right after Mexico gets reimbursed for The Wall.
How can you have any flan if you won't eat your menudo?
To my mind, if you paid directly, you should be eligible for a refund directly.
Whether or not that will ever happen is anyone's guess, though we know what this "administration" (i.e. attack by a foreign power) will try to make happen.
The majority of tariffs were paid by businesses, and then consumers paid increased prices, not tariffs. You paid a tariff. You should be able to get a refund. Good luck!
I think Trump himself should have to make the tariff repayments until he's out of money, then the government can pick up where he was bankrupted. So basically the same plan, but more explicit
Costco claims they will give refunds, so we'll see what happens with that.
The question of the mechanisms for returning money to the people who ultimately paid the tariffs, and how, or even if, it's possible to return the tariff payments to the consumers now that it's been ruled that the tariffs were illegal is a different question.
I can see how you would think that, if you were completely, utterly, totally, and in all other ways batshit insane. It's not possible for the government to do that, it would cost an absurd amount for the government to collect all of the information, calculate payments, and distribute them. Therefore the only thing government can do about it is refund the payments. It cannot even mandate that they be returned to buyers even when they can reasonably be identified because a) that will have costs for the businesses who actually paid them and b) the ability to charge whatever the market will bear is a basic tenet of capitalism. Also while we're here c) they don't even enforce existing regulations on price gouging.
They are absolutely correct that the West (specifically the US) has abandoned the responsibilities that came with being the only player capable of effecting global peace and stability
There never were any such responsibilities and the US only ever wanted to be top dog so that it could shit on everyone else.
What we have seen and learned with the Iran war is that the British/US empire/cabal/whatever doesn't want the stability and prosperity they are fully capable of imposing on the world
No, they aren't capable of imposing it on the world. It's easy to break things, it's much harder to repair them.
They shouldn't be allowed to play gods, but right now they're not only allowed, they're being encouraged. They've sold themselves to the government movers and shakers as indispensable, and in some cases as the most important, most vital parts of all of society.
They are the most important, vital part of society as far as the lawmakers are concerned, because they're the ones who provide them with their privileges.
Black and white thinking, personal attacks when you have no real substance to support your assertion - sounds like a maga.
Try reading the 13th amendment to the US constitution.
What matters is who actually, at the end, was out the money. And it was the consumers.
That is not at all what matters to who receives the refunds, which can only be those who were charged.
If you can't see that I don't know what to tell you.
Tell me something that matches the law, or stop telling me things.
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