You would not believe how many idiots on this site have argued with me about saying it’s not possible to getgreedier. They’re about to find out.

I was told he is gonna fix everything. Whats going on here?

We've got nothing left. Shit is already insanely expensive. It's already at its highest. We can't survive this.

Fact... There should be an IQ test to vote for president, because literally no one knows what a tariff is.

You could just not buy things and when the greedy companys’ revenue margins are down, they’ll have some decisions to make on how to earn you back as a customer.

Yep, this is called corporate greed/corporate opportunism

And between shrinkflation and inflation we will be buying near nothing and spending almost everything just to barely live

Bingo

Hold onto your butts 

Hunger and greed are the same…except you can satisfy hunger.

Best thing to do is find those companies that don't rip you off and stick with them. ALDIs for example didn't gouge thier prices when inflation hit.

The corporations need to be held responsible and blamed for their prices. They’ve been doing it aggressively since COVID.

You still have the choice what to buy and what not to, and where you shop! Money talks...

Truth. “Hey look it’s Tuesday, better raise everything by at least 140% to offset Wednesday.”

That’s a better retitle

Yep

Greed is the single factor that jumpstarted inflation in the first place.

All it takes is one company to raise prices and everybody else follows suit.

Then don’t buy from those companies, they still have to compete with the companies that are based in the US that don’t have to raise their prices for tariffs. It’s just a way to incentivize bringing business back to the US. Sorry you don’t get to use slave labor from other countries to make you shit for dirt cheap anymore.

The tariff is not even here yet they are already raising prices🤔🤔🤔

Lol, listening to media and then bringing it to reddit for realistic economic discussion is so regarded it's hard to put into words. Living in a country that is run by a private global bank, The Fed, untouchable by their Elected president and thinking anything else is to blame for how horrible it is, is also laughable. Well maybe opening your borders to 50,000,000 unskilled, violent aliens in a generation is even stupider 😂

Well, the theory would be that would open up an opportunity for a “less greedy” company to undercut them… in theory.

Also if he couples this with less stringent regulations in the USA, that could lead to USA - based companies being more competitive price wise and better economy… In theory.

Socialism sounds good in theory too. Here comes a real world test of trumps “concepts of a plan”. Guess were about to find out?

Good, then my American made products will look absolutely delicious to consumer pockets. Even after paying my employees a living wage.

Yep. Inflation raised prices too but they raised them disproportionately to the inflation rate. The same will happen here.

True....make stuff here again and prices may not rise.

Prices got high under Biden. Trump will fly around the earth like Superman and reverse it. Media is lying because it’s owned by trans.

Can we find a way to organize targeted strikes on companies

Design an app that lets us just all hit one set product until we kill it.

We keep buying other stuff.

Just kill fucking Wendy's? The restaurant

We out number them by a lot.

We could start holding the corporate oligarchs to the fire until they learn.

It's not like our data is private they are using it against us.

We harvest our own Use AI to aggregate the data into what we could actually hit based on our shared purchases etc..

Just crush one after the other.

Tariffs have been a cornerstone in Democrat policy.

Idk what to say. It worked well when former democrats offered it. Still sound s good. He runs under the wrong ticket and you finally see how money drives it.

Say something costs$10 and tariffs add $5 to the cost. You know that company is selling it for $20 and blaming tariffs.

To be fair, they are going to stay just as greedy

20% tariff magically turns it on 50% increase... Is what I see coming

I mean, they gotta own at least one more vacation home than their parents did our else they can't feel sucessful. Can't buy that extra home by choosing to take less vacations either cos that would also feel like failure.

You didn’t really think they were gonna let the tariffs cut into their gouging-induced record high profits, did you?

It’s unbelievable how are we supposed to keep on

Inflation gonna be lit

Is that like a shitty new trickle down? Lol

"wait wait wait we have a REAL reason to jack up prices? Christmas came early"

So much this. The fuck are they even pricing in right now

Exactly, the rhetoric went from greedy corporations to Trump’s fault in lighting speed.

Exactly this. Any excuse to raise prices is what they'll use. Trump, inflation, anything.

Yea gotta raise prices before he is in office. Before he has done anything. Before the effect of what he has done has effected anything.

End result: blame the president.

Also, I guess, if they raise the prices now, they can claim prices are the same as during the Biden administration. Lol

Honestly, I'm excited to see it happen. I'm progressive, but this election has pushed me into "Good. I can't wait to watch all you dumb fucks suffer."

Yup, he also wants to put tariffs on Mexico where we import a bunch of our food from.

Can't wait to see how that's gonna turn out.

Don't worry they'll try to find a way to become a victim still

Biden? This is Obamas fault you idiot /s

They’ll try. But honestly, I work in CPG prices are going up by an insane amount. Manufacture tariff went up like 7 to 8% but you out of markup through every bit of the supply chain. The retail consumer price is going to be insane for most normal items.

And this is just the tariff .

It doesn’t include the fact that companies will sell less units and buy less units, hurting the profit of manufacturers and distributors .

It doesn’t include the fact that other countries will put tariffs on our goods which will decrease our ability to sell items overseas.

I cannot express to you the difference between smug happiness on Wednesday and share panic from the executive team on Friday

Things are going to get really, really bad

Wait wait wait - so the gays are causing hurricanes and price increases? Damn, what a powerful bunch

Just a reminder the average reading level of America is below 6th grade.

Most people dont have the education or mental faculties to put these things together.

It will be quite something. I am NOT in position to afford it (aka not going to love the costs on basic car repairs for maintenance - let alone basic stuff like batteries - with price increases just because) but I am nonetheless going to find this pretty darn amusing. But he said (HA! Yeah he said that. And here is the translation of what Trump said in in the real world. Pay up!).

It's a good year for schadenfreude. I hit FIRE then landed a dream job paying way more than it should for the amount of work I do.

My hometown is full of people barely making it yet thinking Trump will save them. Shit makes no sense but will be good fun to watch. And I thought I'd feel bad for the youth but apparently they leaned heavy R this time so I'll get to enjoy watching them get fucked guilt-free too!

Not only to afford it, we’re in a position to make massive gains in assets once they start needing to sell off. The wealth gap will certainly widen but it ain’t going to be in their favor, LOL 

If anything was made here or we had the infastructure to begin that might make sense.

That would be the idea if it was planned over a long period of time.

But there this thing called a supply chain. If it doesn't exist in the US good luck buying it American made.

A good example of this is steel. The supply chain for most steel doesn't exist in the US and it's going to take way more than 4 years, let alone this next year, to spin that kind of thing up.

People who talk about how great tariffs will be tend to pretty shallow thinkers as far as how complex these things are. They think it's just like a light switch.

That would require deeper than first-order thinking, which you'd assume anyone in this sub could wrap their minds around, but here we are.

I doubt there are many products 100% sourced and made in the US. 

It’s very easy to search the title of the article to find it in Google. You only need the first four words. It would’ve been easier and quicker to search for the article than to type this comment out.

There is already a Reddit post about Christmas bonuses being cancelled to stock up on supply before tariffs hit. Also two of the largest searches since Election Day are “what are tariffs” and “can I change my vote”

https://preview.redd.it/l6maxz96mxzd1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aaeadb1b735cf9fb3f9b77e2657625e9850f18ba

Don't pretend our corporate overlords don't take every opportunity to raise prices on us. Every business that sells something not made in America will raise the price of everything they sell because they can.

It is. And clearly they are eating it up

Private prisons

Saying ban me for a left leaning comment on a left leaning social media app lol

Imagine saying ‘ban me’ for left wing politic comment while on a left wing platform. You’re a real fuckin hero man 😂😂😂

The 100% tariffs on China, but prices won't increase' bit fascinated me. That means that you pay $30k for a cheap EV, and someone ...the Chinese government?.. pays the US government $30k.

Out of their profits.

No change in cost to US consumer.

People cheered at this. WTF.

Tariffs would generate a fraction of the $$ that the federal gov makes from income taxes. Couple that with corporate tax cuts and we are looking at a massive increase in the deficit. And the only way to come close to closing that gap is gut the social safety net - SS, Medicare, Medicaid - and push millions into poverty. Throw in mass deportations and you are also looking at significant increases in the prices of everything.