How much more are you paying on daily "essentials" due to Tariffs?

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fentanyl went up.

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Well yeah
Supply routes were crippled.

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Insurance - all kinds and it is essential/required.

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Yes. They go off of expected replacement parts for cars and replacement material for houses. Those are being tariffed.

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Someone yesterday threw up Dove Mens Deodorant went from 6 to 9 so that made sense

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Holy shite I paid $10.12 for 1 stick of dove men’s deodorant at a CVS the other day. Won’t be doing that again.

I’m recently single and enjoying living as cheaply as possible.

Been eating mostly rice and ground beef(I’m trying to gain about 25 pounds) for a couple months. Ground beef at Publix here is over $9 a pound. I’ll either start looking for cheaper ground beef at Costco or switch to ground turkey/chicken if that works.

I’m cognizant of prices, but so frugal that it hasn’t hurt anything.

The only thing I’ve put off for a bit is the purchase of a watch I’ve been eying. But that’s not unlike me to do anyways. I like to way over research any larger purchases I make.

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Holy shite I paid $10.12 for 1 stick of dove men’s deodorant at a CVS the other day. Won’t be doing that again.

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CVS will always be more expensive than Walmart or DG. Their prices are outrageously high to begin with. We just bought a box of 6 sticks of degree at Sam’s for around $20.

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Biden might’ve broken it, but Trump sure as shite hasn’t fixed it.

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One thing consumers will never understand is that prices will never go back down. Trump has controlled inflation to where it’s not continuing to go up. Blame needs to go to corporations or consumers because consumers continue to buy.

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Holy shite I paid $10.12 for 1 stick of dove men’s deodorant at a CVS the other day. Won’t be doing that again.

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Yeah the stores have lost their minds

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I’m recently single and enjoying living as cheaply as possible.

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Ground beef at Publix here is over $9 a pound. I’ll either start looking for cheaper ground beef at Costco or switch to ground turkey/chicken if that works.

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Ask for the beef tube of ground meat

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I’m cognizant of prices, but so frugal that it hasn’t hurt anything.

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I feel like this is most ppl

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One thing consumers will never understand is that prices will never go back down.

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This is a general statement and is false.
All generalizations are false. Just cynics, which usually hate Trump more than they live their country. IMHO

It’s not false. If a company rises prices which contributes to their earnings they’re not going to reduce it down the following year showing losses. Most of this inflation was brought by businesses and corporations during Covid. It’s just now settling.

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Biden might’ve broken it, but Trump sure as shite hasn’t fixed it.

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And there's an example as to where Trump missed the boat with messaging. Trump inherited the smallest US cattle in nearly 75yrs due entirely to Potatobrain mismanagement. Worse yet, 75yrs ago the US population was less than half what it is now. Meaning on a per capita basis, we'd not seen cattle numbers this bad since the 19th century.

That message should have been run on rinse and repeat until it was seared into the public's brain, because the public is generally stupid in figuring such things out for itself. It takes 3-4yrs at a minimum to refurbish a thinned herd. That message should have been run on rinse and repeat until it was seared into the public's brain as well, because the public is generally stupid in figuring such things out for itself.

That said, are you struggling to figure such things out for yourself?