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    3. TopNotchPost on

      I imagine the Kirkland signature lawyers have an airtight case. This administration would be foolish to take on Costco while drowning on the issue of affordability.

    6. PatSajaksDick on

      Please let this spur a MAGA Costco boycott, I swear it’s the only place I still see the red hats

    8. irishyardball on

      And then do we sue Costco for our money back? Or should we be the ones suing the Trump admin?

    9. TheDwellingHeart on

      If there were a Costco around me, they would have my business. They stood up to the DEI changes, and they are now doing this.

      I realize that all corporations truly care about is money. But the ones that begin to harm society via ideology should be punished by losing business. The opposite should be true as well.

    10. DramaticWesley on

      And is Costco then going to refund all its customers for passing the cost down to them? Oh, they are just going to keep record profits to jack up their stock price.

    11. Pretend_Pea4636 on

      It’s awesome that they are doing this. The irony is that the tariffs are a tax being applied by one man and there is no recourse. It’s little different from the motivations behind the Boston Tea Party. This is taxation without representation because it comes from an Executive instead of the Legislative. It’s a stolen tax happening right before our eyes.

    14. DylansDeadlyTwo on

      So if they win and get their tariffs refunds, how do we get our tariff refunds?

    15. the0riginalp0ster on

      Good luck, they will never pay you and this will just happen again.

    16. zombiebabou on

      So if businesses can get a refund on tariffs then customers are just screwed on the extra cost they paid in increased prices? I know it would be a crazy mess and not really feasible to actually make customers whole but businesses get to double dip on this? They raised prices to cover the cost of tariffs and then they get a refund on them later possibly with interest. Then the national debt goes even higher because Trump used tariff revenue to pay for all kinds of stuff and these tariff refunds would have to come out of federal coffers. I’m not arguing that the tariffs should stay but Americans are just getting screwed both ways on this.

    19. dclxvi616 on

      Double-dipping. They have us pay the cost of their tariffs only to seek reimbursement from the taxpayers for the tariffs taxpayers already compensated them for.

      And the sleaziest thing is people think this makes them look good.

    20. Robofetus-5000 on

      Someone said Costco’s legal team is almost Disney legal of „doesn’t fuck around“ and that if theyre doing this, the writing is on the wall for the tariffs future.

    21. Flat-Emergency4891 on

      Why should the companies get the refunds when the it was us who bought the tariff products from them? They built it into their pricing when we bought the stuff. The refund should be ours.

    24. Chris_HitTheOver on

      I mean, it’s the right thing for them to do, but unless they follow it up with refunding their customers, I don’t give a fuck. Costco is not hurting for money.

    25. Xayne813 on

      Costco is suing but werent the prices passed to us? They will double profit from this?

    26. Sugar_Kowalczyk on

      So, how’s Costco (and other corporations) gonna get those passed-on tarriffs back to the consumers who paid them? 

      Extremely curious about this. 

    29. Sidewalkdrugstore on

      We as citizens should be able to sue the administration for this bullshit.

    30. IntoTheMusic on

      > Like the others, Costco said it needed to file its own case because it is “not guaranteed a refund for those unlawfully collected tariffs in the absence of their own judgment and judicial relief.”

      Good job, Costco, for stating it so plainly. Definitely unlawful.

    31. V_T_H on

      I wonder if anyone who still believes that the other countries are the ones paying our tariffs can figure out why the refund would be going to Costco and not China or whoever else. Almost like the US companies pay them and they pass those costs onto the consumers.

    32. lesigh on

      This is what companies should be doing instead of going to the White House and kissing the ring.

    33. Yubat on

      Buck-fifty hot dog meals and fighting for tariff refunds. Costco is a business of the people, by the people, and for the people.

    35. downlike4flattires on

      If they win, does that mean customers can sue them for the higher prices they’ve paid?

    36. Fleabagx35 on

      I imagine Costco the type of business that would refund its customers as well. It would be easy since all their customers have memberships with addresses on file with a complete shopping history!

    37. withwhichwhat on

      Maybe they are trying to shake loose a decision from the Supreme Court. Both sides asked for this to be expedited, and oral arguments were a month ago. Every day thousands of small businesses in the US are getting crushed by these tariffs. Companies want a decision out by the end of the year so that decisions requiring accurate cost of goods sold forecasts can be made with that information.

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