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global1

(26,105 posts)
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 02:45 PM Tuesday

We Americans Are Consumers - And We've Been Long Before These Tariffs Will Kick In.......

We know what we've been paying for those items we shop for that we regularly buy.

So we know what the price is (or soon to be) was.

Therefore - if Bezos or other merchants - won't be reporting the tariff price increase on their shelf labels and/or receipts - it is up to us the Consumers - to make that information available.

Tell the American Public - what the pre-tariff price was and now post-tariff - what in addition we are paying.

If these rich businessmen refuse to tell us - we should take the bull by the horns and publicize that information.

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We Americans Are Consumers - And We've Been Long Before These Tariffs Will Kick In....... (Original Post) global1 Tuesday OP
They will want to inflate the price on top of the tariffs Blue Full Moon Tuesday #1
Of Course They Will - They Jacked Up Prices That Way During The Pandemic - Just Because They Could..... global1 Tuesday #2
And collect sales tax on the inflated prices. Squaredeal Tuesday #4
The best message, where possible, to Bezos, Trump & Wall Street, is just stop buying anything but the necessities dutch777 Tuesday #3

global1

(26,105 posts)
2. Of Course They Will - They Jacked Up Prices That Way During The Pandemic - Just Because They Could.....
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 03:07 PM
Tuesday

get away with it and they had the pandemic as an excuse.

That's why -- we as consumers (the buying public) and we know the pre-tariff price we've been paying for an item - when they start jacking around with the post-tariff pricing - we can report the difference of how much more we're now paying for the same item.

If the rich businessmen and merchants won't report the tariff pricing - we're going to have to report that info ourselves.

Squaredeal

(644 posts)
4. And collect sales tax on the inflated prices.
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 03:20 PM
Tuesday

They’ll pocket the difference since there’s no double tax on tariffs.

dutch777

(4,365 posts)
3. The best message, where possible, to Bezos, Trump & Wall Street, is just stop buying anything but the necessities
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 03:14 PM
Tuesday

And where you do buy, to the degree possible make it local, from mom and pops and send as much chill to big box and national/corporate brands as possible. Sure, you need groceries and gas and electricity and you may have limited local options but after that, resist, economically. Between the boycotts of travel and goods/services from overseas, if we add decreased consumption here at home business leaders will notice-- banks, Wall Street, large corporations of all stripes. As orders for goods from China have either been cut by US firms that know trying to sell their usual widgets for 145% more + their usual mark-up won't fly or Chinese manufacturers who won't absorb the tariff hit as big players like Walmart are trying to demand, port of LA is expecting container traffic to fall 44% imminently. Layoff WARN notices have already been drafted and it will be , ship, dock, trucking, rail, warehouse and other workers who have nothing to handle. And as shipments for things like back to school clothes and supplies should be getting ready in China right now, they aren't. The shock to the supply chain from whenever Trump or someone finally blinks will takes months or even a year to stabilize and the longer the blink is delayed, the worse it will be. A message needs to be sent and we consumers have some power to do that. The sad thing is the US workers who have been or will be hurt from all this half baked posturing and BS.

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