Unwoke Hoosier

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY THE GOVERNMENT "LIBERATED" YOUR WALLET AND NEVER GAVE IT BACK. April 2, 2025. "Liberation Day." The promise: tariffs would bring factories back, lower consumer prices, and pay down America's debt. One year later, every single promise is broken. Consumer prices rose another 2% from tariffs alone. 90 to 95% of the cost was passed directly to you. The average household lost $3,800 in purchasing power. Manufacturing didn't boom. It lost 89,000 jobs. Then the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional. Now $166 billion in refunds are owed. But here is what nobody is telling you. Those refunds go to importers. Not to consumers. The businesses that already raised your prices, already passed the cost to your grocery bill, your gas tank, your electric bill. You already paid. You are not getting it back. And the government has to find $166 billion it already spent while running a $1.9 trillion deficit with $39 trillion in national debt growing at $7 billion a day. Interest payments alone crossed $1 trillion this year. How do governments cover holes this size? The same way they always do. They print. And when they print, the dollar in your pocket buys less. Your groceries cost more. Your savings lose value quietly while the headlines move on to the next crisis. Liberation Day didn't liberate anyone. It was a tax on consumers dressed in a flag. Ruled illegal by the highest court. And the bill is still on your kitchen table.