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You know what they say about assumptions. They don’t hold up in court.

Kind of like assuming tariffs are used for public benefit.



Then the court is full of shit and double facing. They sure do when it is a conspiracy charge, as long as it is one of the plebs.


You may almost think that criminal and civil cases are handled differently.


Ah yes we can only rely on assumptions when someone's freedom rather than money is on the line.


We could rely on facts when making determinations. Like the fact the government said foreign countries were paying for the tariffs.


Fact: Costco explicitly told the public that part of the price increase in some of their goods was having the customer "absorb" (pay) the price of the tariff.[]

  "When we looked at -- we also source flowers from Central and South America. We looked at that item and decided that while we were able to offset some of the tariffs through similar activity that we did increase some price there because we felt that, that was something that the member would be able to absorb and it was more of a discretionary item there."
[] Q3 2025 earnings call




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