A Tax Expired at Midnight. Another Took Its Place in the Same Minute.

Podcast: Consequential Actions Podcast · Jeff Kellick

Opublikowano: 2026-09-01

Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 11B Learning Resources v. Trump, Section 122, and the 1689 Bill of Rights: How the Taxing Power Left Congress At one minute past midnight on July 24, 2026, a tax on most of what Americans buy from abroad stopped existing. No bill passed either chamber. No president signed anything. In the same minute a different tax took its place, at roughly the same rate, on roughly the same goods. The old tax had a deadline that put the question back to Congress; the new one has a deadline th...