Since the Supreme Court ruled the Trump tariffs were unconstitutional, many companies are racing to obtain refunds of the tariffs they paid on the goods they imported. Fair enough. But many of those same companies raised prices on those goods to compensate for the extra cost of the tariff. Ultimately, millions of American consumers paid for these tariffs by the increased selling prices charged by these companies. Those prices haven’t decreased.
Neither these companies nor the government has or is doing anything to relieve the American consumers burden from Trump’s illegal tariffs. This is a whopper of a windfall for these companies — they get a refund of the tariff they paid plus they keep the extra money they charged for the tariffed goods! The Justice Department should investigate the propriety of this situation because there is definitely something here that is “rotten in Denmark!”
Paul Gallo
Barre