Governor JB Pritzker sent Donald Trump an invoice on Friday, February 20, demanding nearly $9 billion in tariff refunds for Illinois families after the US Supreme Court ruled the president’s much-touted tariffs are illegal.
Pritzker urged the White House to “cut the check” after justices ruled 6-3 that Trump had exceeded his authority by invoking emergency powers to impose tariffs that reshaped global trade and pushed up prices at home.
“Your tariff taxes wreaked havoc on farmers, enraged our allies and sent grocery prices through the roof,” the veteran Democrat wrote, warning that further legal action could follow if compensation was not forthcoming.
In the letter shared with US media, Pritzker demanded about $1,700 for every Illinois household – the amount Yale University experts said the average US household would pay on tariffs last year.
Refunds from what? As far as I know, the tariffs haven’t generate positive revenue, so any money that gets ‘refunded’ is literally coming from taxes we paid, which will have to be paid again. I don’t see a way to do this that doesn’t cost more the less you have.
As a someone living on the other side of the ocean I don’t have a stake in this, but:
Which is why there should be a legal possibility of regressive claims against elected officials who abuse their powers and break law.
Bankrupt the fucker. Again.