Cue Trump's de Minimis Refund Sh*tshow
Monday, March 09, 2026
Despite Trump slow-walking the refunds owed to the Americans who had to pay his illegal import taxes, legal clarity about getting refunds appears to be on the way, at least for those who were hit the hardest.
But what of the large number of individuals slammed by the taxes when Trump ended the de minimis exemption for items worth under $800.00?
Oddly enough, lots of them aren't happy, and they're not behaving like well-oiled wheels about it.
They want their money back.
Fortunately for most, major shippers who paid the tariffs before passing them on plan to repay them as soon as they have clarity on their own refunds from the government:
Natasha Amadi, a spokeswoman for United Parcel Service, said the company would support customers in obtaining refunds of IEEPA tariffs once a legal framework was established, adding that this applied to "customers of all sizes."This is fortunate for them, and good business for the shippers, but there is still plenty of chaos left to go around. Some shippers charged processing fees, which customers want returned along with the tariff loot. People who paid tariffs to overseas entities clearly won't have legal recourse.
In a statement, Glennah Ivey-Walker, a spokeswoman for DHL, said that when there was legal guidance for the refund process, the company would "communicate with our customers and take appropriate actions." ...
Indicative of the confusion, the report discusses people who got screwed by tariffs at the retail level, even though the de minimis exemption has nothing to do with the vast majority of these people. That said, folks who had to pay higher prices at retailers might see lower prices, rather than refunds, if Costco is an indication. (As prices wouldn't show a tax component, this makes sense, but lots of people won't see it.)
And, predictably, class action lawsuits are about to start flying around.
Come November, don't forget that Trump and his party are all in for Round Two, even though they already know the new tariffs are also illegal, and the refund fight is just a small part of what they are putting us through.
-- CAV
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"don't forget that [come November election] Trump and his party are all in for Round Two" -->
Don't forget that come the November election, the Democrats will do many of the same things that Trump does in terms of violating the Constitution and using lawfare and harassing those they don't like. Don't forget that they will try to stop school choice and basically any other libertarian measure. Don't forget that they will raise spending and taxes. Don't forget that if Americans are killed in a foreign country or by a regime or cyber warfare is used to sabotage American businesses, they will turn a blind eye because they don't want to antagonize and they think they can negotiate.
1. Come November, don't forget that the Democratic party has continued to move further and further left toward "wokeness", cancel culture, pressuring social media not to allow differing opinions, and socialism.
2. Come November (and the one 2 years hence), don't forget that any abuses to civil liberties and the Constitution such as "lawfare" and trying to sue and jail your political opponents done by Trump will likely be done worse by the Democrats if they get into power (unless you didn't notice those things being done by the Obama administration and the Biden administration).
3. Come November, don't forget that the Democrats will increase spending and taxes and move us further toward socialism.and that at some point there's a tipping point where the number of people receiving handouts is greater than those giving them. 4. Come November, don't forget that the Democrats tend to appease expansionist dictatorships and totalitarianisms. Or try to endlessly "negotiate" with them, which simply emboldens them and allows them to break whatever treaties are made. And if it's left up to the Democrats, Iran might have acquired nuclear weapons by now.
5. And (this is the most important element in determining what direction a country moves in) don't forget that the rest of the culture, which is intellectually controlled by the left in pretty much every area is silent about these violations of rights. Especially when "their guys" do them.
All true, but also don't forget that unless the Republicans suffer a deserved defeat for basically turning into Democrats under Trump, that the party that was supposed to stop the Democrats will not improve.
So do we make them pay now, or when AOC or worse is running in 2028 and people are REALLY sick of Trump, and the infinitely worse (but fortunately uncharismatic) JD Vance tops their ticket?
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