Apple got an estimated $2.2 billion tariff refund last quarter. Amazon got $600 million. Nike got $300 million. But American consumers who paid higher prices as President Donald Trump’s tariffs filtered through the economy are getting almost nothing back.
All consumer fines should go into the America First Fund (irony intended), to be the seed money for all the Social programs we need to implement.
Billionaire and corporate fines should start at $1 billion per count, no matter how small the infraction, with money going to the America First Fund. Companies that have behaved particularly egregiously should be confiscated, and operated with the profits going to the America First Fund, and their owners stripped of their fortunes. Those who have been punished in such a manner will not be allowed to access the benefits of the AAF, they have lost those privileges of our society. In the future, the only destitute people in America will be formerly bad behaving Sociopathic Oligarchs. When you see a homeless person on the side of the road, you will know they are former billionaire shitheads, who EARNED their homelessness through their Sociopathic behavior.
The AAF will stand alongside the Dow, and be discussed on the evening news. When they announce the daily results of the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ for the wealthy, they will also announce the AAF, for the Citizens, and to daily remind the wealthy that’s where their fortunes are destined if they don’t operate their businesses to benefit society.
Those fines belong to the Citizens, and should directly benefit the Citizens.