Remember when grocery store prices wouldn't decline after covid and the Biden administration started investigating grocery chains?
Well, fat fucking chance of prices dropping even if the tariffs disappear.
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The Amazon Prime Day strategy. Increase prices for a while then reduce the prices to “slightly higher than they were originally” and claim you’re doing a favor.
This guy fucks everything up, then wants us to praise him for unfucking one or two things he himself fucked up.
It's not even necessarily unfucking either. When distributors and producers learn a new higher price consumers will pay, it's very easy for them to default to that price. They can just increase prices to match what it was with tariffs and nothing changes except more profit for the producers. We consumers wouldn't even realize it since we're so far removed from the source.
Or that's the point. Every crisis is an opportunity. Create crisis, create profit.
Costs of goods hasn't been a meaningful part of final cost of a product in a long time. Companies have been using minor cost increases to justify major price increases for a while now.
Regardless of whether it's the producer or someone else along the supply chain, the prices are able to stay up because the consumer will pay the increase price. At the source or not, that's my only point
So, tariffs do raise prices then?
Man, if only someone had known that going into this mess.
Hey dipshit MAGA subhumans, guess what?
spoiler
They ain't going to lower the prices. They're going to pocket the difference because people are already paying it. You did this. Have a merry Christmas you cockroach filth covered animals.
as if that's all it took to lower prices. companies are gonna look at this as 'free profit' and keep them high, pocketing the 'savings' for as long as they can.
Yeah, the prices won't go down unless forced
Gasp but forcing them is communism!
No, it's only communism when the Demonrats do it you silly goat. Common mistake.
Walmart and every other grocery store corporation:
To be fair to corrupt corporations, they already bought the beef and coffee at tariffed prices, so they have to sell that stuff before the prices can go down. Unless they get a refund (not gonna happen), that's the way things work.
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Weird, I was assuming that adding tariffs on coffee would magically create plantations of coffee in Wyoming
Wyoming is already full of bigots, no space to plant coffee trees.
Wyoming isn't full of anything, the entire state has the population of a mid sized town.
Why are Republicans always so attracted to rural areas with low population density? So that they don't have to deal with other Republicans.
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Yeah except the damage is already done. The issue is every time he does this shit the countries that aren't able to import to America go elsewhere and start up in those countries. If they already established why the fuck would they come back and risk the loss again off the tariff rug pull? It's not only logical it's a better business move to just stick where you are where the market is going to be stable. This is what happened to the soy farmers.
I mean, let's just sit back and observe the stupidly obvious fact that Trump is lowering tariffs to lower grocery store prices, which necessarily confirms Trump knows that creating tariffs raised the grocery store prices, despite that he has said the exact opposite.
So tell me, mainstream media: Did we do it? Did we catch Trump in a lie so logically incontestable that your reporters would feel empowered to finally report it as a "lie"?
[Scans article]
...sigh.
Joke is on American customers. I bet my ass that prices either won't fall at all, or at least fall far less than the change of tariffs would warrant.
Of course they won’t. Prices never go back down. We’re still paying extra for the ongoing COVID supply chain troubles.
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The Art of the TACO.
Oh so the tariffs aren't making us rich?
But I thought that's what he and his dickheads in charge said!
Oh well, I am positive all his supporters will find a way to pin this on Biden and the radical liberal left I keep hearing so much about. They just gotta wait for Fox News to tell them how to feel first.
Can't be, he's been exclaiming how groceries were already lowered.
Exactly, this would be admitting he was wrong. Impossible.
They're gonna pay us for groceries!
Strange word that, groceries. People are saying it.
Trump came up with that word himself. That's why everyone is saying it now.
Then he forced everyone to have an ID to buy them.
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TACO!
I mean there might be some merit. The ghost writer did everything and got their name on the title. That said I'm still going to pass.
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Who'd have thought... the recomendations for how to lower prices... were, to stop doing those things everyone told him would raise prices and he swore up and down wouldn't.
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Shame that trading partners are already all adapting away from the unstable and untrustworthy tRump regime, who the fuck wants to rely on trade with someone who can completely change their spongy dementia addled mind at the slightest perceived offense or even imagined ones, or their mood that day... or the weather... Honestly, this will not have the desired outcome for Americans because tRump poisoned the well already with his self-serving, corrupt horseshit.
He wasn't lying when he said the tariffs were great for 'us', he just wasn't talking about the same 'us' the public thinks he is. He's talking about himself and a few oligarch business associates who are cannibalizing the country with his gleeful permission. It's not that he's too dumb to see they're playing him, it's that he DOESN'T CARE about America, at all. Perhaps he even hates America for being rejected by the elite for decades on end. He's a bitter, wrathful, closeted gay diva, and he is only happy when you personally are suffering. It's the disappointment of the millennium that so many American people are blind to this, or willfully ignorant because they still somehow buy the lie that it could be them getting into the club and being one of the rich and powerful who can do anything they want and not have to care about their peers.
Don't quit your job, save your money, and buy raw ingredients so you can cook your own food, cause the damage he's done to trade is not going to fade fast enough for bullshit gestures like putting out the fire he started himself to have an impact that favours working Americans. Stay strong, and find ways to get his shit-encrusted and rotting carcass out of office before a complete collapse is upon you and the entire world suffers. That goes for the criminally liable enablers calling themselves the republican party, too. Don't forget corporate plants in the Democratic party.
Lol. The prices arent gonna go down. They just might not keep going up.
as fast*
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I'm sure the Argentinean cattle ranchers appreciate his efforts.
So this means prices are going to go down, right? Right? And not that corporations will just keep the pricing and increase their profit.
Clearly trump knows what he is doing, he is after all the smartest, bestest person ever born.
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