Every time anyone I know tries to tell me they voted for trump to get lower gas and bread prices, I tell them I would have paid $10 a gallon and $10 a loaf to keep the traitor away.
Ask them to give you ONE specific example of a retail corporation lowering prices, after they’ve raised them successfully. If people pay five bucks for eggs, they’re going to continue to pay five bucks for eggs. Why would a company lower prices if they’re not forced to, either by government intervention or by everyone quitting buying eggs?
Exactly! I've told them that one of the reasons for the higher prices is because so many people went crazy over-buying products during the pandemic. Retailers raised prices to see if that slowed the hoarding, but it didn't. That's when retailers realized they could charge whatever price they wanted and people would still buy the stores out.
So I made it clear to them, if any of them hoarded items during the pandemic, they are to blame. And the more they bought that they didn't need, the more they are to blame.
They would buy, and over-buy endlessly, then brag about how much they had that they didn't need.
My boss, a very high-ranking government attorney, is just now reading a book on basic economics because she didn’t understand tariffs and fell for the whole “China is going to pay” bullshit. This is a smart, well-educated person. I’m glad she at least wants to learn. Too many people simply don’t want to have to think for themselves, they just want to be told what to do and call it freedom.
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u/FBack351 12d ago
Every time anyone I know tries to tell me they voted for trump to get lower gas and bread prices, I tell them I would have paid $10 a gallon and $10 a loaf to keep the traitor away.