MoneyWatch The Trump tariffs aren't causing U.S. prices to spike.

Of course... The TACO excretion is so lame and ignorant it's less than worthless.

For the hate mongering left no to understand the process of Trump's tariffs is beyond witless- Like China was going to have a 245% tariff.





For chickening out- don't let the facts stop the lies:

• May 2025: The U.S. collected nearly $23 billion in tariff revenue, setting a new monthly record, about three times the amount collected in May 2024.

 

Posters don't understand what causes inflation

 

Here is the problem with the "it was just negotiation" explanation: if true, it is a noncredible threat. That makes it not useful from a negotiation standpoint. Which is why what we have gotten for tariffs is...higher tariffs than we previously had on our products. And that is about it.

Who did they collect that from, specifically? Did you ever imagine yourself cheering higher taxes?

 

this part is a tough one to hear…… take for example 21% of the entire budget……social security…… is 100% a Ponzi scheme. You or I design that system and open a business tomorrow, we both go to prison. I mean by definition it requires new suckers to pay in every year because the money is gone. The design and fleecing of The funds have always made it a mathematical certainty it implodes…. what has the left done for decades?. Not thought about the long term because the effects of this absurd program wouldn’t be felt by the politicians imposing it, 1. Because they are not required to contribute and 2, their political careers over and riches made long before it blows up. Makes madoff look like a piker. There are plenty of us who have been shouting that for decades. Yet here we are. So tap the brakes on pointing fingers at who is thinking immediate vs long term.

Social Security constitutes approximately 21% of the total federal budget. In fiscal year 2024, the federal government spent $1.5 trillion on Social Security, which was about 22.4% of the total federal spending of $6.78 trillion, according to USAFacts. This makes it one of the largest individual programs funded by the federal government

 

Plus a 0.9% drop is pretty small.

Consumers may have been fearful due to the sky is falling crowd and did not keep spending as frivolous as they tend to do.

I’ll personally thank all the doom and gloom that crushed the market in early April. Let me double down and get into some names that had run too much for me to take a position. I’m up 25% or so since then

 

Social Security spent aprox, 1.5 T but it took in 1.42 T. The net not the total expense is the issue.

 

lol republicans have had plenty of chances to address this and haven’t. I can’t believe you just pointed the finger on ss at just the left. I’m not even sure why you brought that up in a thread on tariffs but ok. You do you.

 

How have democrats addressed it given that they too have had plenty of chances to address it

 

they haven’t when did I say they did?

 

You didn’t…just pointing that out since you only giving half the picture

 

The OP article mentions companies loading up on inventory before tariffs hit. Here's the million dollar question. How long before that inventory is gone and what happens to prices when companies restock?

And we're already seeing price increases from tariffs. But they aren't big because we're seeing demand drops. For comparison, 2009 saw a reduction in consumer spending by 2.4%. It also saw deflation by .4%. So how are we seeing a monthly drop in consumer demand with no corresponding price drop at all? I'm fact, inflation has remained constant at around 2.3%.

The economic indicators should be slowing down inflation. They aren't. So back to the million dollar question. What happens next?

 

lol I haven’t given hair the picture of anything. My god. You’re so desperate to pivot and deflect it’s pathetic.

 

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