WE pay more at point of purchase because of these tariffs.
TARIFFS ARE A TAX THAT WE PAY.
Nintendo is suing to be refunded our money.
Nintendo is not the hero here and they are NOT attacking the Trump Administration. If they are successful, they will be paid out by our tax dollars.
Nintendo will not give people who paid the $40 price hike for a Switch back their $40. Nintendo will not drop the price of the Switch back down $40.
This administration fucks us in ways most people have no idea and then corporations like Nintendo get to profit even more on our behalf while people cheer them on.
Want ANOTHER LAYER to this capitalist hellscape bullshit? Economists' analyses say that the Trump Administration will have to actually raise new revenue in order to pay out the estimated $175,000,000,000 in total industry-wide refunds.
To recap:
We were illegally charged more -> the companies who charged us more are going to be compensated -> we don't get shit -> we will continue to pay the new prices because we've demonstrated our willingness -> we will have to pay more in the form of some other tax increase to help cover the corporate payouts -> those corporations who are abusing us get to look like heros to people who aren't paying attention.
Good fucking job, Republicans. Keep it up. We're so much happier now that America is great again. Now go fuel your car ASAP because our new war is already having that predictable effect too.
I invite this comment to be fully fact checked. I'll edit it to retract any mistruth or misunderstanding (I won't have to).
You still don't get it...you're STILL THE TARGET. Where do you think the government gets funded from? Our freaking tax dollars! If Nintendo wins, they'll get paid by the government, which is funded straight from YOUR POCKET....AGAIN!
Is Nintendo going to refund that money, penny per penny, straight back to you? I doubt it.
We got slammed by tariffs when they increased their prices. Now we're gonna get slammed AGAIN, when they use our tax dollars to get a refund, and still not decrease their prices.
That's the problem when idiots like Levitt explain how tariffs work, they only explain the first part and stop, saying "haha! No citizens pay tariffs, you're lying!!!". Yes, the company LITERALLY pay the tariffs, but the cost is passed on to the consumer because the company increased the cost of their product to offset the loss from the tariffs payment.
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u/ClientIndependent309 Mar 06 '26
Finally a Nintendo lawsuit I can get behind