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Subject: Re: Food Prices
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 13:18:49 -0500
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On 5/26/2025 12:34 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2025 17:24:06 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun May 25 18:28:31 2025 Shadow  wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 May 2025 20:07:33 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At the local supermarket, food prices have been dropping like rocks. Take for instance, wine, Apothic red mixes just scant weeks ago were showing $16.99 reduced to $10.99. Now, the same thing is $10.99 reduced to $6.99. Bread is almost back to pre-Biden. I'm telling you, those tariffs are really killing us. Certainly not everything has gone down but I'm assuming that they soon will.
>>>
>>> 	So an increase in taxes lowered prices?
>>> 	Sounds like raising taxes is a good idea, then, and everything
>>> I learned about economy was wrong.
>>> 	[]'s
>>>
>>> 	PS Maybe not for you. You can't drink alcohol. Read the
>>> absolute contraindications of your meds.
> 
>> Where were taxes raised?
> 
> A tariff is a tax on imported goods.  The importer pays the tax, which
> is then passed on to distributors, dealers, and eventually individual
> buyers.
> 

Mr Kunich's chosen plonk (Apothic) is domestic.

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