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Old 02-13-2025, 10:50 AM
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Default Who gets the money then

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Originally Posted by CybrSage View Post
Completely false, tariffs are not, and never have been, taxes.
Only Congress can authorize the taxes and only the President can authorize tariffs. They are clearly not the same
Who receives the extra money charged then? It is paid, and the government is the collecting agency.

By the way, any group can tax. Your state can tax goods and they aren’t congress. Shoot, even the local government tends to get a little tax happy.
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