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From: John B. <jbslocomb@fictitious.site>
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Subject: Re: Food Prices
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 16:36:00 -0700
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On Mon, 26 May 2025 13:18:49 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>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.

but a it confusion how a "tax" on important goods decreases Ute cost
of locally produced goods :-)
--
cheers,

John B.