US to Appeal Judge's Order for Broad Refund of Trump Tariffs(www.bloomberg.com)
7 pointsby petethomas3 hours ago1 comment
  • jazz9k3 hours ago
    Anyone that bought a plane ticket since 9/11 paid a tax to have homeland security funded.

    This was silenty diverted to a general fund by congress a decade ago. Should travelers get a refund?

    If we are going to start refunding all of these instances, the government won't have much left.

    I've never heard of the government refunding anything based on an alleged mistake.

    • yawpitch2 hours ago
      Every year the government refunds taxes overpaid by people who didn’t owe as much as the government imagined they did. Arguably one of the main functions of the IRS is to ensure the government doesn’t have a huge and increasing liability for taxes that were never correctly collected in the first place.

      Then you add on the fact that this government never had the legal right to make the “mistake” in the first place.

    • clipsy2 hours ago
      So if a Democratic president uses the IRS to illegally seize assets from billionaires and the courts later rule it illegal, your opinion would be that the government should get to keep the money? If not, could you explain why it would be different?