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Before you do that, check out Brad from Useless Farm. Maybe Brad was special, butWe don't have issues with egg prices here, but my wife and I have joked that we'll get a few silkie chickens at some point for pets just because they're fluffy.
I mean... Starbucks has to pay for rent and wages, so doubling the price of coffee won't double the prices the charge.Coffee = 70% + 15% + 10% tariff = 95% increase for your morning cup of joe.
I couldn’t imagine the prices at starbucks and the like. I’m glad I gave them up and make it at home.
That even grows in my ditch! Just gotta dig it up, roast it and grind it. Is this a New Orleans thing? Bitter, bitter.There's always patriotic American chicory.
That even grows in my ditch! Just gotta dig it up, roast it and grind it. Is this a New Orleans thing? Bitter, bitter.
Hershey and other chocolate makers hike prices as cocoa remains near record highs
[Not tariffs, says Hershey, but] "It reflects the reality of rising ingredient costs including the unprecedented cost of cocoa,” Hershey said in a statement.
[Cocoa prices are more than double what they were 2 years ago.]
Nestle's seems more honest. There is a dynamic going on with supply and prices in some commodities where the tariff is triggering price hikes worldwide. Most of these products are agricultural and metals that the US imports. Coffee, Cocoa and Aluminum are prime examples. Inversely, products the USA exports are seeing price declines. Wheat, Corn and Soy are on that list. Also the US dollar is off 5-10% so that too raises prices for some imported goods but lower the cost of US exports.Hershey and other chocolate makers hike prices as cocoa remains near record highs
[Not tariffs, says Hershey, but] "It reflects the reality of rising ingredient costs including the unprecedented cost of cocoa,” Hershey said in a statement.
[Cocoa prices are more than double what they were 2 years ago.]
I'm waiting for Trump's promise to cut drug prices by 1500%, so drug companies start paying us to take their drugs. LOLLet's watch each month and make the 2026 election a referendum on the keeping of those promises.
1) Does inflation go down each month compared to a year ago?
2) Do food prices go down, actually go down as promised?
3) Does the price of eggs go down?
4) Do gas prices go down?
It would seem that I spake too soon?Cocoa prices have more than doubled over the past two years due to poor weather and disease in West Africa, which supplies more than 70% of the world’s cocoa.
My plan is to die happy knowing that my generation wasn’t the one that would let the cocoa bean become extinct. I pity those people.
It's always going to get worse before it gets better. It will never come around to getting better.GOP Congressman on Trump Tariffs: ‘Prices Are Up’ but It’s ‘For the Good of the Country’
“I think a lot of people are seeing higher prices,” said Norman. “Our family’s in the construction business, and we get a lot of our timber from Canada and other countries. Yes, it’s higher. Steel prices are up, but it’s for the good of the country.”
“Should we expect high prices for a short time? Yes,” he continued. “But overall, we couldn’t keep going the way we were going… That’s why this president is doing such a good job.”
How long will it be until it's not a short time and it becomes obvious the president is doing a bad job on his promise to lower prices?
Just a short special economic operation.GOP Congressman on Trump Tariffs: ‘Prices Are Up’ but It’s ‘For the Good of the Country’
“I think a lot of people are seeing higher prices,” said Norman. “Our family’s in the construction business, and we get a lot of our timber from Canada and other countries. Yes, it’s higher. Steel prices are up, but it’s for the good of the country.”
“Should we expect high prices for a short time? Yes,” he continued. “But overall, we couldn’t keep going the way we were going… That’s why this president is doing such a good job.”
How long will it be until it's not a short time and it becomes obvious the president is doing a bad job on his promise to lower prices?
whateverIf you ask me, I'm seeing tariffs as an end run around the VAT tax. Its interesting to me that so many oppose tariffs becauae its a tax on the people. Yet they live in areas that tax the people and support raising taxes on the people. In our country we have very few Democrats who have never met a tax they didnt like. Except the tariff of course.
Personally, I have the gut feeling I dont like the tariffs as they stand. Im okay with them being used to get fair trade because other countries use them as well. I mean we didnt hear any Canadians crying about tariffs American goods which caused them to pay higher prices. Same goes for European countries. Either they are a tax on the people or they are not.
And if they are then no anyone opposing tariffs in America should also oppose any tariffs in their own cou try for the same reason.
Maybe Trump should get an economics Nobel prize as his lackeys think…
I’ve always found it strange how the Nation with the most money elected a person who had the absolute audacity to assert that we were getting bested at doing capitalism.There are NO economic benefits from an across the board tariffs. These tariffs are simply a sales tax on imports. The higher the tariffs, the higher the tax on consumers. Many countries have removed many, if not all, of their tariffs on US goods. This will greatly benefit consumers. EUROPEAN consumers. They will pay less for American goods.
Oh, so “raising taxes” is a “good thing” if it’s spread around to everyone and not just raised on people (and corporations) who hold the vast majority of the wealth?If you ask me, I'm seeing tariffs as an end run around the VAT tax. Its interesting to me that so many oppose tariffs becauae its a tax on the people. Yet they live in areas that tax the people and support raising taxes on the people. In our country we have very few Democrats who have never met a tax they didnt like. Except the tariff of course.
Personally, I have the gut feeling I dont like the tariffs as they stand. Im okay with them being used to get fair trade because other countries use them as well. I mean we didnt hear any Canadians crying about tariffs American goods which caused them to pay higher prices. Same goes for European countries. Either they are a tax on the people or they are not.
And if they are then no anyone opposing tariffs in America should also oppose any tariffs in their own cou try for the same reason.
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