President Trump and his policies, since back in office this year, repeatedly have been challenged by extremely liberal U.S. district judges. The good thing is that, in most cases and I do mean in the high majority of them, the president has been found to have acted legally under the Constitution by the Supreme Court justices.
Well, he had best hope for the sake of conservatism and the Republican party that he was right about enacting tariffs. Why? Well, because companies that evidently would rather give their business to foreign countries, like Red (communist) China, are suing the Trump administration for the amounts they have paid in tariffs saying it as illegal for Trump to have imposed them. Now companies, such as COSTCO, are suing President trump over his tariff rates. This was in the news a few days ago at https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/costco-files-federal-lawsuit-challenging-trumps-emergency-tariff-orders-on-imported-goods. Of course, Costco had another option rather than suing President Trump and his admin over tariffs. That other option would have been to buy the products they sell from companies based here in the United States of America. In other words from companies that give jobs to American citizens (something that probably would assure higher quality goods than those received from our enemies like China), pay income taxes to the USA, and overall would promote a better economy at home especially by way of enticing companies that manufacture overseas to move manufacturing back into our country. Yet, Costco and any other company suing over tariffs, has not done that but rather has chosen to support foreign nations, again including our enemy Red (communist) China. (If you wonder why I repeated "communist" in parenthesis, it is because I have been asked by several young folks, when I use the term Red China, why I use it. They evidently have no clue due to lack of a proper education in world history; well actually due to the lack of education in almost every field except maybe gender studies.)\
Costco seems to me to be taking the less than American way out, in fact I believe they have definitely taken the easy way out or at least the one they expect to be easy. I hope they are wrong and that once again, the Supreme Court upholds President Trump's policy on this issue. I am a bit doubtful though that they will and if they do not support him and this policy it will be to the great detriment of our nation. Most folks do not realize that the government of the United States of America mostly funded itself by way of tariffs, that was up until 1913 when the income tax was reinstated (originally the U.S. income tax was commenced after the Civil War) by way of the Revenue Act of 1913; that act also greatly reduced tariffs on imported goods. It was a democrat who proposed that law, one Oscar W. Underwood. (I think you would have guessed it was a democrat, even if I had not told you. Democrats and taxes on American citizens go hand in hand, remember it was President Joe Biden who said that the government was going to spend more, thus increasing the deficit, and that taxes would be raised to pay for his spending!)
The president who signed the Revenue Act of 1913 into law was also a Democrat, one of the five worst presidents, in my opinion, the U..S. has ever seen - Woodrow Wilson. It was something that was unnecessary to keep our coffers full but that indeed put the thumb of the government pressing down on the citizenry and legal resident aliens harder than it had ever done before. Ever since the Revenue Act of 1913, taxation and ever increasing tax rates have been and remain the mantra of the democrats today, and my guess is will remain so until someone like President Trump can once again, through tariffs, fund the government without robbing the people of their hard earned income. Do tariffs make prices go up - only on imports or goods made here manufactured with imported parts. If manufacturing returns to the USA, those prices will drop like a ton of bricks and tariffs are guaranteed to make companies return to our shores to produce more domestically than in third world shitholes hellholes like Red China, Turkey, Mexico, and elsewhere.
If the Supreme Court rules against Trump having been legally able to introduce tariffs and to choose the tariff rates, then they in effect further will decimate the already faltering economy left behind by President Biden. In that case, the Republican party as a whole will suffer because it will be seen as a major mistake made by, and a major failure of, President Trump and his administration. If they Republicans lose the faith of the American people, our whole nation will suffer for it. That is because, it will take what probably will amount to hundreds of millions, if not billions, to pay back companies like Costco while at the same time allowing them to keep having the products they sell manufactured in places like Red China. Made in the USA used to be a symbol that had folks expecting, and then receiving, high quality goods. That is something a made in China label will never achieve. Let's hope that President Trump got it right once again and that he indeed had authority to initiate new tariff rates.
All the best,
Glenn B
