A massive regressive national sales tax imposed upon every American by a president with no constitutional authority to impose a national sales tax. The reason why the founders gave this power to Congress is because this would never pass any Congress- even this one.
What do you think it’s time to say enough
Yes, it would and is “passing” this congress because they are spineless and not doing their jobs.
But I was told the exporting country paid the tariff. I heard it on Fox entertainment
If it is on Fox then it must be true!🤪😵💫😵💫🥴
Lawsuit incoming! 🚀
There is always lag in the system. As stock runs out and import costs start to hit new production, prices will rise, as sure as egg is eggs!
... But it's an "emergency"!
The good news is even with all the Trump Tariff chaos, stone soup remains a surprisingly affordable supper because people can still find tasty and cheap American stones.
Congress has the power to stop these tariffs. The fact that they are enabling it makes it clear that it has democratic validity. Suffer the consequences of your votes.
The NYT bows to the tyrant again. Whty i gave up my subscription in June 2024. Their headlne about the tax. The headline should read "The tariffs funding the government are a tax on Americans who can least afford it" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
The NYT is trash. When I cancelled, I used ever character allowed in my comment to tell them exactly why I was leaving. I hope the editorial board rots in hell, carrying water in sieves to damned politicians for eternity.
I hate him and everything he does.
Why pay an illegal tax?
I sure hope not
And it’s buried in the prices, so no separate “tariff charge” item on most receipts for us to identify.
A massive sales tax was inflicted on the poorest Americans to the tune of 30 billion dollars to fund a massive tax brake for the Ultra wealthy so they can send tourists to space and shut down Venice for a $500 Mill wedding. Fixed it. When we can no longer afford to eat can we start eating the rich.
He plans on stealing ALL this Tarrif money.
But Congress passively let him. They are on board. They just don't want to do the work. Let HIM do it.
How about those prices now?
THANK YOU for recognizing it for what it is..
New ballroom, new updates for 747, Remodeling at the WH, opening new golf course in Scotland, makeup artists for his staff, new veneers for himself, millions in legal fees. When and HOW will this end???
Don't forget manipulating the markets with his on again/off again tariffs, that pig and his mates cleaning up with raging insider trading!!!
How he managed to make the MAGA believe the countries he applied to tariffs to are the ones paying them and not US companies and people is crazy. He’s skimming money to build his ballroom and line his pockets.
The mental midget has usurped all the power from his weak republican sycophants
No balls in sight... Checks out!
Revenue from the American people, not from other Countries
Don't like tariffs? Don't buy the imported crap.
but tRuMp iS SaViNG amErikA
Obviously meant to bankrupt the government and ultimately the global financial system
I have to rest. Good Night. Everyone. #RESISTANCE
My, what fat ankles you have, Mr. Dennison.
Phone caller: "Hello, this is (ahem) John Barron & I can tell you Donald tRump's numbers are the BEST the WORLD has EVER SEEN." Hangs up. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Right name, sales tax paid by citizens
Translation: “taxes skyrocketed in July…”
but..somehow...it did
Based on eyeballing that chart, it says Mango Messiah has sucked $50B out of the pockets of the poor and middle-class and out of the economy (this is up front and ignores the velocity of those dollars as they would have been spent and re-spent). He will now give it to favored oligarchs.
To think Americans are now paying all this extra tariff money to the Government to fill their coffers while working people become even poorer.
And that money will be used to fund Brownshirts, I mean ICE activities.
He must’ve missed the lesson about Taxation W/O Representation - go figure
Yup. We're beginning to really feel it.
And you likely won't be able to trust the numbers soon if firing the BLS head because of bad numbers was the start of a pattern.
You can't trust them now!
We need alt-data like we had during Covid. Gas Buddy but for groceries.
Slowing economic growth won’t help things, either! www.jpmorgan.com/insights/out...
It's already here.
$29.6 Billion dollars passed on to consumers on thousands of products all across America.
We don’t have a Congress anymore. It’s an authoritarian regime. Constitution be damned. 😠
Coming soon to a grocery store near all of us.
already hit @foodlion.bsky.social I was outraged as I shopped today as were my fellow shoppers.
Soon?
It already has. Not just with higher prizes, but less quantity per box/bag too.
And you have to buy 5 boxes to get the 25 cents discount per box.
But the republicans duma would
Then why don't they fucking jump in and stop it!
The thing about tariffs is that Trump is all over the Epstein files.
So every working age American is basically paying $100 a month in tariffs.
Congrats magAmerikkka… are you sufficiently smug enough that you owned the libs…this is but a wee snapshot of how much more expensive your groceries will be… not included is all the other expensives like health care, clothing, prescriptions, entertainment, vehicles and yada yada yada🤨🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
So that means we need to rid ourselves of a Republican majority in Congress that allows this.
This is intentional. Even with Trump's tax cuts factored in, most of us end up paying more in taxes than we ever have. The rich get more massive tax cuts, and our grandkids will be forced to pay for their taxes, with interest.
And the big picture is that even now this is a small percent of federal revenue.
Yeah, and where exactly is it going?
Ok but WHERE IS THE CONGRESS?? WTF ARE THEY DOING??
I'm not so sure. This one hasn't balked at Trump's lunacies yet. MagaRINO in Congress have become proficient at prostituting themselves to Trump, and then relying on fading memories and lies to retain their seats in Congress. They may have outsmarted themselves this time, but it won't stop them.
So, money taken out of the economy and peoples pockets
There is no way they're not trying to crash the economy. Their immigrant policy alone will send us into a recession. The tariffs will be devastating. Add that to the budget, and we're doomed.
Customs duties: Taxes on imported goods, *paid by importers* at the point of entry; aim to generate revenue and protect domestic industry. Excise taxes/duties: *Domestic taxes on specific goods* (like tobacco, alcohol, fuel) at production or sale, meant to generate revenue and control consumption.
And yet he STILL keeps saying that the other countries are paying the tariffs. Sigh.
Bravo!!! Meanwhile, under Trump’s watchful eye, the Government added $516 billion to our National Debt in July!!! fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/deb...
Taxed to oblivion—and just like the “big, beautiful wall,” the promised manufacturing boom will never materialize. #TrumpGopGraft
Democrats don't be conned! No matter what trump or his cronies say.... include the Epstein Flies reference in each and every post!!
Because Trump & the GOP have been brainwashed by the Wall Street mindset, that profit is the primary goal of life and government, totally antithetical to the concept of democratic governance that is of, by and for the people. "He who dies with the most wins." Government CANNOT be run like a business
Neoliberal economic ideology. ( aka supply side, trickledown) infects most of our politicians.
Trump is an enemy not a leader
TARIFFS are TAXES. On this Truck. bsky.app/profile/opsa... Wake up, MAGA!
With no de minimus exemptions, these tariffs are crippling productivity. I am a field service technician & recently had a critical machine down for an entire week because $100 part was stuck in customs while customs tried to figure out what the tariff should be. This cost hundreds of thousands
Congress sucks!
Trump is now saying he is thinking of sending everyone a dividend from his tariff successes - is this because the appeals court said there is no emergency? That he can’t impose tariffs so rather than admit that when he has to send the money back it will be called a dividend?
Wait, Trump's going to give the people a little their money back that he stole.
There should be a class action suit against the US government on behalf of the American people claiming that every cent of tariff tax collected needs to be repaid.
Wouldn’t work. The treasury would pay the importers, mostly big corporations, who would keep it as a windfall payment.
Are you forgetting who "OWNS" the SC. Mommy needs a new pair a shoes. daddy needs a new RV. Am I right Clearance?
Hard to believe we've gone from dumping tea into the harbor to allowing one person to unilaterally raise every American's taxes on a whim because the leader of another country hurt his feelings.
Sure they did. Give your head a shake. Just kiss the ass of the new American dictator. Just a bunch of spineless morons too afraid for their jobs. The USA is finished
Is he going to use this money to build that fucking ballroom?
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The tariffs are under review by the courts at this moment and could be found unconstitutional... www.marketwatch.com/story/a-cour...
It is hitting consumers now. After walking through a Winco today, a semi-discount chain that doesn't accept credit cards, and seeing the skyrocketing prices for canned goods and more, I watched in the checkout stand as a couple with teens looked distressed while counting the cash to pay.
Those aren’t BLS numbers are they? You know current admin will be ALL over this!
I re-read the Declaration of Independence yesterday (the 249th anniversary of its signing) and it seems we’re completely back to where we started… www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
Congress is all in on team trump. They cannot break rank and think individually
Higher tariffs aren’t beneficial to my family. The price of everything has gone up in the last 18 months…this tax is on top of those increases with no added benefits. I’m not happy.
Go find your reps hiding under a rock somewhere and explain to them how unhappy you are. Take 10,000 of your closest friends.
Actually, bigtime tariffs were the norm for decades after the Civil War. Trump wants to go back to the 1890s -- tariffs but no income tax, no regulations, oligarchs ran things, women couldn't vote, segregation.
Trump is now directly ripping off all American citizens.
Considering that it would only take a handful of Repubs to stop all this bullshit, I must disagree. Congress chooses not to use their constitutional authority.
MAGA are bragging about the tariff revenue. 🙄
he told us …
Exactly. One guy posted a comment on a Canadian Facebook page with this (the job numbers are wrong, because those are July US job numbers). He said "We're making billions on tariffs. 🤣🤣🤣". He was quickly corrected by hundreds of people.
Epstein files anyone?
And nobody in the lower tax brackets will see any benefit from this at all.
And Trump-MAGA prance around like it's free money.
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act? Anybody? Anybody?
Number one question everyone should be asking their GOP representatives: "How long are you going to continue to ENABLE THIS ABUSE of your constituents?"
100s of emails written to ask this same question of mine. Zero response. Only photo blogs of visits to donors for his 2026 election. Zero opening candidate. Zero town halls open to constituents since the ONE in 2013
Time to find an address and go with a few dozen angry people and host an impromptu town hall I think
www.gpb.org/news/2025/03...
That's awesome! Elected officials work for us, I hope you keep drumming up enough interest where voters can help remind them of that fact!
Someone PLEASE explain to me how tRump has the power to impose IMMEDIATE, BARBARIC & UNCHECKED tariffs on ANY & ALL countries globally without ANY RESTRAINTS!? I'M ALL EARS...🙄
Because GOP has completely abdicated their jobs and spurned their oaths of office, no doubt due to a combination of greed, hatred, threats, and blackmail
Was one of the first open chair events. Zero response from his office. I have no respect for his service any longer
Heck, bring 20,000. Don’t stop until you find the fuckers.
The republicans are nothing but a rubber stamp as is the Supreme Court. The nation and our democracy are gone.
Totally Taxation Without Representation 🖕
Everything DJT and GOP has done, counters their stated goals - pertaining to economy. And a national sales tax will also DROP tax revenues bc employment and payroll tax will drop
We soon won't have reliable data, but if factual, wait for the loss of production and payroll taxes from the illegal loss of migrant workers and loss of production.
Not so sure these toadies wouldn’t do the deed if Trump told them to but at least that’s the legally-established process. Right now we’re under the thumb of a rogue president who’s trying to run the entire nation based on ill-conceived “feelings” that randomly come and go moment by fleeting moment.
Yet, they have nothing to stop it.
But it did. It passed this congress. Trump can issue tarrifs only because congress hasn't taken away the power. No action is action. Refusal to reign in power is granting someone power. Congress can shut this down any minute. Any of it. They can impeach. But the Republicans do not permit it.
Only Trump can steal, tariff, tax, and cheat the American people and then give them back a pittance saying he solved the problem he created and he "making america great"...the sad part is people believe him. Soybean farmers, are your listening????
Sounds to me like this kind of thing should come with criminal charges for dereliction of duty but we all know when it comes to politics their laws have no teeth.
Taxation without representation.
Out of the pockets of American consumers.
I and you pay the tariff revenue. Fuck Donald Trump
Oh looky there.
Can’t explain this to MAGA
Look at all of that money showing up! Ignore those higher prices in the stores. Now the MAGAs are excited because there is talk of getting rid of income tax all together. If only there was someone in the MAGA crowd who could figure out where the tariff money comes from.
Let’s see how the American consumer – whose spending accounts for 70% of the US economy – reacts over the next few months.
Let’s see how the American consumer responds since their spending drives 70% of the U.S. economy, their behavior in the coming months will say a lot about where we're headed.
How long will it take MAGAts to realize this is Americans paying this… & not foreigners? It’s a big sum, & it’s currently being paid by big companies, & they will pass that into the consumers. P&G, GM, Ford, Stellantis, Boeing, are losing billions to pay this. Meanwhile 🇺🇸 exports are dropping.
Americans being taxed by the federal government through #TrumpTariffs. Only this tax revenue is not going to help the people, it is going to help the billionaires, and to cover up the #TrumpEpsteinFiles
I don't trust any numbers coming from trumps administration.
Not too sure this Congress wouldn’t pass it. They are totally corrupt & subservient to the felon crack pot
This congress would not have passed it but in surrendering to Trump they bypassed both sides of the aisle.
Congrats to everyone who paid to get the unions removed, pay bills for other people’s, while other people play tag and some people do abhorrent things to create the first trillionaire. I hope they invest in the slaves soon.
We have 4 former commanders in Chief, scores of sidelined and dismissed Military leaders, 6 former Vice Presidents, hundreds of former cabinet officials from both parties, most of these people are still under oath. There has to be a leader, a warrior among them, it only takes two to charge treason.
I think this everyday, hoping they are in contact with intelligence agencies to make plans to counter and remove this unruly administration. It appears it is ultimately up to us, we the people!
If they are not a part of the solution they are a part of problem
Meanwhile Congress 😴
Taxation without Representation & Epstein
Oh… so poor and middle class suffer more by paying higher prices…. On these “hidden” taxes? Kinda sounds like taxation without representation??
And he's blaming Biden.
Gosh, I wonder who had to pay those tariffs. 🤔
Tariffs are taxes on us.
The USA needs a modern day revolution and blue states should be holding back your federal tax dollars from Washington. Hit them where it hurts, money talks
Not buying anything new Going back to thrift stores and keeping as much of my money as possible.
He wants us angry and traumatized I'm used to hard shitty trauma as a retired crisis counselor for Rape Victims & Battered Women. I'm gonna out last Trump, Project 2025 and we will get our Democracy back to rebuild . Time to kick out the GOP and laugh while we vote them out. youtu.be/R8AGEjj2Jds?...
Research the legality of his tariffs and you will see that congress started authorizing the president to this in the 1960’s
This will be characterized as a “huge win.” There are plenty of people in this country who will buy that bullshit, but a great many more who won’t stand for it. Yet another huge mess that will have to be un-fucked.
Next year the deficits will be bigger. Inflation higher and cost of living will put massive wage pressure on. Is he going to raise tarrifs again to cure it?
Oh look $29 billion more dollars this administration can steal. How bout that.
Talk to Trump supporters 😡 they are screwing us all for their cult
Stop paying federal taxes. Simple.
How do you get people to understand what a tariff is? I never thought is was a difficult concept....WTH???
Fire the head. Fire the Commander. We will not go down with the ship. He will.
This jump is more then likely the hurt at the check out counters in America.
If it would't pass any Congress, somebody needs to introduce a bill, no?
Damn Congress for abdicating their duty to the American people and economy. Republicans are a cowardly bunch.
I think Congress, that is Republicans, would agree on this asap. They don't think for themselves and just follow up on the orders of their orange king.
Talking about a dead constitution is a distraction from talking about solutions.
Unfortunately, most Americans are so totally ignorant about tariffs that they see deaf on the subject.
The Constitution is a cudgel to Republicans, nothing more.
Gotta get the $$ to build that gaudy ballroom somehow.
I read that he’s lining up donations from corporations. Does the US use outside money for renovations to Federal buildings? If Felon47 stiffs the contractors who are awarded the project, do the contractors sue the federal gov’t for damages and arrears?
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I’ve been wondering this! I was raised on Long Island and he was always on the news cheating, or cheating on, someone.
He actually still owes New York 400000,000 he’s always been a crook never has changed and he’s never held accountable
Exactly.
Do you think the founders considered the possibility of congress abdicating their authority? Maybe they did and tired from creating a wholly unique democracy figured, “nah, let’s not overthink it. Remember there’s always the voters.” 😞
Then why are they letting this happen?
Amazing how jobs stats plummeted…. Wonder what might’ve caused that…
It’s going to be hard to go back. Tripling revenue (even the backs of the working class) is going to be hard to rip away. Like the way people grow their lifestyle to match their income. We are so so fucked.
To pay for alligator torture camps and ice promo videos on Argentinian ranches.
He wants more money in the treasury so he can use it to benefit himself and his billionaire pals. $450 million for a tent concentration camp that could not come close to that cost. Where is the money going ? A $200 million ballroom ! We now know our system is powerless.
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Taxation without representation
So on average we’re paying $90 more a month for stuff, or at least $1000 more a year, before the tariffs even fully started?? and this is so that billionaires get tax cuts??? WTF!!!
Careful — Trump may well fire whomever at Treasury is in charge of aggregating, tabulating and reporting the tariff data. :)
But he won't because he's proud of his tariffs and his base thinks somebody else is paying.
And I, for one, am pissed.
So, richer government, poorer population?
death & taxes unavoidable, taxation without representation, DEFINITELY avoidable squirm they may, brass tacks have final say...
But, have you taken Trump’s persuaders into account, his ‘Enrique Terror Squad?’ They are real, and he is capable of any and every outrage…
Trump doesn’t care about the constitution., cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/08/what...
The U.S. consumer is being attacked with Trump screw drivers. The screws just keep turning in deeper and deeper.
Sheriff of Nottingham
A regressive tax that he is illegally imposing to cover the billions in tax cuts he’s given to the 1%.
All to offset the Big Billionaire Bill
Him and his billionaire buddies, figured out another get rich scheme, and disguised it as tariffs. They know damn well it’s a tax on Americans, that they are pocketing.
We are all still being charged this everyday and this is money we will never get refunded back. The day this started it could have been stopped by Congress and they all did nothing. All of them suck.
Just the repuglicans.
Fact: With the massive transfer of wealth to The Rich this money is going into their pockets. It's not for funding the government.
Don’t let Trump fool you. These tariffs are being paid by the American consumer. Trump and his billionaire/mega-millionaire robber baron buddies are fully aware of this. They simply don’t care.
One dementia ridden lunatic should not be able to impose tariffs (national sales taxes) on command. This is taxation without representation. It is illegal and unconstitutional.
It was, but the U.S. is now a fascist, police state. The constitutional era is over, & states continue to not enforce their laws or sovereignty. But he has certainly worked his way through most of the listed grievances from the Declaration of Independence.
AGREED. SEE MY NOTE ABOVE.
Extortionist in charge stealing and pillaging across the USA and the world.
Americans are the ones paying this tax.
Great. So now we can resume funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, keep subsidizing the disadvantaged to help buy medical insurance through the ACA, reduce Student Loan Payments, fund head start, rescind cuts in funding to the NIH, CDC, NOAA, USAID...
Damn shame about that. Trump's keeping all of that money for himself.
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If only that’s where the tariff revenue went.
Let's call it what it is...an IMPORT TAX. And let's not forget it was TARIFFS that launched a revolution to become our own country with our own govn't/constitution. Boston Tea Party ring any bells? After 250yrs, it's Trump's lack of history threatening our way of life and the future of democracy.
We have a court system that, in the end, will hand Trump his win. Until that issue is corrected, it's only going to get worse.
So basically from a political, social and economic standpoint the country is being run by the Oval Office.
Well, they gotta get that $ from somewhere if their gonna give the billionaires a raise. Otherwise they will create a recession and who wants that? Other than billionaires who will pick up your home during foreclosures. See how that works. Problem is playing with fire& morons can get ya____ R 💙 ✌️
Trouble is, the orange pig has his brainless, inbred followers believing tariffs are paid to the US by countries exporting to the US.....trump..."Chyyna is paying $billions to the US in tariffs".......ignorant pig!!!
Gotta pay for those tax cuts on the rich by reducing benefits and taxing everyone else more. He’s just hiding it in a tariff policy that will also wreck American industry. Win win for Putin and MAGA.
Not just upon every American, but specifically weighted to negatively impact bottom four quintiles due to marginal propensity to consume imbalance
Tariffs 1775 NO taxation without representation Donald Trump and the administration has placed taxes on Americans without our approval Treason Again. How many times will America get sucker punched by Trump and his administration?
There's still enough of those dumb fuckers who think it is the other countries who pay the "tax" because #Trump called it a "tariff". Really, really sad the rest of you also have to pay for this lunacy.
Exactly. And his fucking rubes think someone else is paying it. Stupid fuckwits. .
I hate to have to keep asking but are we great again? I really am getting tired of all this winning.
Unless American workers get a $20 billion raise, this is unsustainable.
HE UNDERSTOOD TARIFFS. It’s a massive day-in, day-out heist from the pockets of working Americans, directly into a corrupt grift slush fund he will figure out how to use. Not Congress. He has taken the purse, and is now stuffing it.
Trump no will somehow benefit
Republican voters don’t understand how tariffs work. They don’t get it. And they never will.
Your President is using a pay-to-access extortion scheme on other counties but he’s using his own citizens as the hostages.
Only Tariffs are not Revenue for a Country that Creates its own Money at Will. #MMT newrepublic.com/article/1582...
This Congress would pass a shoot your left foot off if their dear leader told him that’s what he wanted them to do.
Where do you suppose that money came from? China? Canada? Better check YOUR wallet MAGOTS. You've just been had.
Look at how much more money US consumers are now paying for international purchases… All to go into his pockets and further his agendas.
MAGAs will look at this a think ‘oh look how much money the US made’ yeah dumb a$$es that’s your money you’re spending
Who *exactly* gets the money paid in tariffs?
Where are our rebate checks? Like that would even come close to the price of eggs!
Correct: Any tariff revenue collected by the govt has the same effect as a tax increase on the importing company, which is then passed on, at least partially, to their customers. A business tax increase and tax on predominantly lower income consumers.
Lovely shit we give -he take What is our money going for with all the cuts, to ice and a ballroom wtheck are we even doing .
The Magats do not know they are being taxed twice.
As a consumer, it’s irritating being subjected to a hidden tax, but what’s outrageous is that we’ll be forced to pay a sales tax on tariff costs. Paying a tax on a tax. Insufferable.
