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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prices for me went way up during the pandemic because a large part of my budget is food.

Recently my food prices have been stable but I have noticed huge increases in cheap consumer crap from China such as my kids clothes.

Which personally I don’t mind increasing costs of discretionary cheap plastic crap from China. We would all be better off buying less of it.

What I need are prices of essentials to stay stable. Food, fuel, energy, insurance, and healthcare.

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So, food is now subject to many of the tariffs, so sorry about that.

Fuel is at least a global market although people in the upper Midwest that refine mostly Canadian oil will be seeing higher prices then the rest of the country due to tariffs.

Insurance is a combination of expected casualties plus the costs to rebuild after such casualty.  Tariffs will absolutely raise insurance rates because nearly all the input costs for auto and home are increasing.

Tariffs impact just about everything.[/quote]

Higher taxes impact everything as well. It all trickles down to the end consumer.[/quote]

What’s your point.  We would all be up in arms if the president just unilaterally raised taxes too (which is what he did BTW since that’s what a tariff is…a tax).[/quote]

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