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Bessent said tariffs are being paid at the dock:

"SCOTT BESSENT, TREASURY SECRETARY: Well, the check is written to the person who receives it at the dock in the US"

https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ip/date/2025-08-07/segment/...

Yeah ...

How can this be reliable, audited, and free from corruption? Anyone associated with this Admin is getting a cut either straight up (which we won't know until the full four years are over since they won't allow investigation), or discounts. They've already made AMD and NVIDIA give a cut of sales (which is crazy). It's all just too much money for them not to be thieving.



> They've already made AMD and NVIDIA give a cut of sales (which is crazy).

Imagine if you as an individual had to pay 15% of your income to the government!

Oh, you already pay much more than that and you want to pay only 15%?




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