if trump hands out rebates for inflation, it just makes the tariffs a pigovian tax designed to reward those who buy more american products and less foreign products. like a carbon tax.

that's not why he's doing it, he's reacting to public concerns about inflation, but it would make the tariffs more effective as policy (in theory) and something he should have done in the first place if he wanted this to actually work.

our own government might want to consider tariff rebates, as well, that would go out to everybody and reward those that buy canadian items without tariffs, while penalizing those that don't.