Jeff Tiedrich - Taco Donny gets punched in the dick by tariff court

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if ever there were a holy shit moment, we got one last night, when the three judges on the U.S. Court of International Trade were all ‘Taco Donny, put an end to this tariff bullshit right fucking now.’

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the court cockblocked Donny for a simple reason: presidents cannot levy taxes (which is what tariffs are, duh) — that’s the job of Congress.

it’s right there in that pesky little thing we call the Constitution.

Article I, Section 8 says that “The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes …” Article I, Section 7 says that “All bills for raising [tax] revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives …”

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