There is an old-fashioned word for what is happening at the corporate headquarters of Costco: greed. For months, families across this country have paid higher prices at the checkout counter, told that these increases were the unavoidable result of national tariffs. Now that those tariffs have been ruled unlawful, a $166 billion windfall is being returned to the retailers by the federal government. But instead of passing those savings back to the mothers and fathers who actually paid the bill, Costco is attempting to pocket the full refund for its own profit. This is a betrayal of the trust that must exist between a business and the community it serves. Commerce is not merely a mechanism for extracting yield; it is a social contract. When a company uses the pretext of national policy to squeeze the household budget and then refuses to make things right when that policy fails, it loses its moral standing. A class-action lawsuit in Washington is now seeking to force the company’s hand, but it should not take a judge to teach a multi-billion dollar corporation the basics of honesty. The unjust enrichment alleged in the complaint is a fancy legal term for keeping what isn't yours. In an era where middle-class families are already struggling with the rising costs of fuel and food, this hoarding of tariff refunds is a cold-blooded insult to the American table. We call on the leadership at Costco to do the decent thing: return the money to the people who earned it through their daily toil.