How We Lost Our New [Big Island] Home To Trump's Illegal Tariffs

[Durian Fiend]

One of the reasons why I was quite successful in my 30 plus year career was "paying attention to detail."

If we look at the YouTube video posted by DF, which spawned more commentary about how Will's story is all made up "fake news" by a bunch of TDS sufferers, etc., all one needs to do is queue up the video to the 2 minute mark, where the lady says, and I quote, "Today is Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 and we have something very exciting happening today, we are getting our container home delivered."

So, just searching the YouTubes for the first video one can find does not answer any questions relative to Will's story, as the date the container house is being delivered would never have been impacted by the specific April 2, 2025 Liberation Day tariffs issued under 2 Executive Order decrees using the laws implied under the IEEPA, as well as within the "on the water clause" that ended on May 27, 2025 and trying to be very clear here, but these are the SAME tariffs later just recently ruled illegal by the SCOTUS and is the main, entire and whole issue of discussion relative to Will's issues.

So, while Will's article is admittedly absent of some key specific facts, making up facts or playing "gotcha" games with outdated similar information will never get to the bottom of the reality Will's article suggests that happened.

It's not clear to me how you've come to ANY of your conclusions in the above passage. Using phrases like "Gotcha games" and "first video one can find" is just silly argumentative.  

The point of my posting the video was simply to note the relative costs of shipping and tariffs vs. the initial house cost in getting a prefab from China, from someone who bothered to share this basic information.

Also note that the man I quoted in the text above said nothing about any surprise costs incurred during the past two years he's been buying and selling tiny homes in Hawaii. I had asked him if he thought the story was legitimate, but he either overlooked this or chose not to respond.