I grabbed a few quick grocery items for supper last night; a pack of Echrich smoked sausage, a block of cheese, and a box of macaroni. For a good while a small block of Walmart brand cheddar cheese has been $1.98. Suddenly yesterday that same cheese was a $2.24. If my history major math is correct, that is a 13% increase. Tell me again inflation is easing. Oh wait, the government does not include food in the inflation calculation.
The point of this mini rant is there were two main reasons Trump won the election and neither was the sex or skin color of his opponent. The reasons were the open border and the economy.
Narcissist Trump believes we voted for HIM as opposed to policies. Maybe some of you did. But here’s the thing, if he slaps on tariffs like he is boasting, your prices are going to skyrocket. That means in four years the communists will be back in charge. We don’t want that.
3 comments:
Do you mean $2.24 by any chance?
Well crap. Fixed. Thanks.
Joe
This country bumped along just fine with tariffs in place for centuries.....sure, things we didn't grow or make cost more but we had more $$ in our pockets to buy these foreign goods as there was no income tax or we did without. And we still have tariffs btw but we got into trouble when we stopped making things here! And all those years tariffs funded the running of government/federal programs because government was small enough. An income tax was instituted to fund the War Between the States in the North but it was rescinded after that war. Then the government decided not to rescind the income tax instituted to raise funds for WWI and then Pres. Roosevelt who was in office for 432 years made things worse. Now we are taxed to death to fund a gargantuan bloated government. There is no incentive for the government not to make up new departments and fund them and DC bureaucrats to waste money since it's OUR money not theirs. It's Monopoly money to them and we are just the boot or the thimble in the game.
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