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You don't need tariffs, you need taxes. The problem isn't that your economy isn't doing well, it's that too much of the wealth goes to the top and too little to lower and middle class. It's not normal that one man has more than 250 billion.

he won't though. so enjoy your rights being taken away and rising cost of groceries.

I'm still worried about how he's even going to accomplish that, seeing as he's also planning to deport the cheapest sources of agricultural labor.

I hate that republicans like saying that republicans are better for the economy when they're not

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party

prices went up under Trump, Trump told people the prices went down, and dumb people believe him.

Biden told corporations to lower their prices, the corporations lowered their prices, Trump said prices went up, dumb people believed him.

There's a little detail in the show that I always liked. They didn't shove it in your face and I appreciate the subtlety.

The detail is that there were actually very few groceries in the grocery store. If you look closely, the produce is always very low quality, and there just wasn't that much to choose from. It was a big deal when they got those navel oranges. Not much meats either, and they mostly got canned goods and such. It highlights how shitty their society is without going too overboard. "You might not have noticed, but your brain did."

Lol, groceries are about to go up. Trump wants to continue a pointless tariff war with China. It's not going to work.

The CPC is more than willing to plunge their own citizens into poverty to outlast the US. Americans complain over a 20 cent increase in gas. How do you think they'll react when most of their goods suddenly increase by 30% or more?

Chinese labor made the American middle class.

The best part is that Trump will not bring down the price of groceries.

Except he won't, of course.

You know, except there's no motivation for retailers to lower prices no matter how cheap the the products become nor how low their taxes are.

blessed be the groceries

Blessed be the fruit.

Canadian commentary:

I know it’s difficult with corporate greed and price gouging right now, I’m not debating that.

I’m worried that the food that people gravitate toward is unhealthy, ultra processed and cheaper on purpose. You need to buy MORE of this kind of food to stay full.

The US has, in my understanding, a lot of food deserts where healthier options are not available and people are pushed to eat empty calories.

The late-stage capitalist system wears people so thin that the effort to find and cook cheap healthy meals can be overwhelming if you don’t usually do this.

Portions in North America are HUGE.

There are ways to eat for cheaper but I understand that takes effort. For example, I order a $23 CDN all in produce box to my door of oddly shaped/sized produce that feeds two adults for a week. The largest box at $49 easily feeds a family of 4. It takes effort to find and locate services like this. Only available in big cities too.

I guess what I’m trying to say is it seems like the structure of society and capitalism makes the impact of corporate greed RE: groceries SO much worse.

Not to mention the wars, gas, and housing prices.

I know a lot of people are low information but since this issue in my perspective is aggravated and accelerated by so many factors, it still baffles me that people accept the solution is more Republican trickle down economics and tariffs which seem like they’re just going to make the problem worse for everyone.

Definitely thought this was a statement on Amish Pennsylvania at first... cuz that's just how markets look like there lol