Large U.S. companies, Amazon among them, are leaving legally owed tariff refunds on the table rather than collect money the government wrongfully took — because the cost of presidential retaliation exceeds the value of the refund. That's not a business decision. That's a protection racket operating through fear of executive displeasure. When corporations calculate that forfeiting their legal rights is cheaper than asserting them, the rule of law has already lost the room.