LadyDoc wrote:
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I live in the Philippines and today got a routine annual letter from social security to verify my address etc.
Butt when I sent the reply back in the return envelope I was told they are not allowing anything to be sent to the US because of tariffs. Tariffs are for small packages that China sends all over via other countries to cheat tariffs.
Probably a misunderstanding but you see how the left and the stupid are framing tariffs overseas.
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So that means any expats won’t be able to get their payments because they can’t verify their address?
I’m in once again! We’re nearing the 8 year mark!
Below is why President Trump is allowed legally to decide what tariff rate will be placed on what country.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-congress-delegates-its-tariff-powers-to-the-president In Wayman v. Southard (1825), Marshall noted that Congress could not delegate powers “that are strictly and exclusively legislative.” But Congress had the ability to grant other powers as needed. “The difference between the departments undoubtedly is that the legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law; but the maker of the law may commit something to the discretion of the other departments, and the precise boundary of this power is a subject of delicate and difficult inquiry, into which a court will not enter unnecessarily,” Marshall concluded.
The Court defined these boundaries regarding tariffs in a landmark decision from 1892, Field v. Clark. Marshall Field & Co. objected to tariffs placed on sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides under the Tariff Act of 1890, which directed the president to place such levies when other nations used tariffs the president “may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable.” Marshall Field claimed Congress had improperly granted legislative powers to the president.
In his majority opinion, Justice John Marshall Harlan said the president was acting in his executive role executing a congressional policy. “What the president was required to do was simply in execution of the act of Congress. It was not the making of law. He was the mere agent of the lawmaking department to ascertain and declare the event upon which its expressed will was to take effect.”
Congress increasingly took a less active role in levying tariffs directly, especially after the 16th Amendment's ratification in 1913 led to a federal income tax that replaced tariffs as a main source of federal government revenue.
In 1934, Congress passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, which gave President Franklin Roosevelt the ability to change tariffs rates by 50% and negotiate bilateral trade agreements without additional approval from Congress. Since then, the president has mostly controlled and executed tariffs policies as defined by Congress.
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As I read this the president is allowed to set the tariff rates and the congress passed law that allowed the tariffs. If so President Trump is in perfect alignment with the law.
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I live in the Philippines and today got a routine annual letter from social security to verify my address etc.
Butt when I sent the reply back in the return envelope I was told they are not allowing anything to be sent to the US because of tariffs. Tariffs are for small packages that China sends all over via other countries to cheat tariffs.
Probably a misunderstanding but you see how the left and the stupid are framing tariffs overseas.
“
So that means any expats won’t be able to get their payments because they can’t verify their address?
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Try and see if you can fill it out online. You’ll have to set up a “myss” acct, but that’s pretty easy. Good luck,!