Supreme Court Killed Trump Tariffs and Your Grocery Bill Still Flinched

Imagine getting mugged, the Supreme Court tackles the mugger, and then everyone calmly goes, “Anyway, he’s planning to mug you again.”

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger used her SOTU response to call Trump’s tariffs what they are: a massive tax hike that doesn’t even bother pretending it’s for schools or roads—just vibes and trade-war cosplay.

And the punchline is the timing. She pointed out the Supreme Court had struck down Trump tariffs just days earlier, like a legal whack-a-mole where the mole is your paycheck and the mallet is “economic policy.”

Tariffs are basically a checkout-lane surcharge on everything with a supply chain, which is… all of it. Companies don’t eat the cost out of patriotism. They pass it to you and call it “market conditions.”

Spanberger’s warning wasn’t even subtle: new tariffs are still being planned. So even if the Court body-slams one batch, the next one is already in the microwave like reheated entitlement.

Meanwhile, politicians from both parties keep acting like this is 4D chess instead of the oldest trick in the book: make regular people pay more, blame foreigners, and call it “strength.”