Summary
Vice President JD Vance claimed that Donald Trump’s policies will lower grocery prices, but he failed to provide details.
Instead, Vance emphasized vague goals like increasing capital investment and job creation.
Meanwhile, Trump’s recent tariff threats, including a 25% increase on Colombian coffee imports, have driven coffee prices higher, exacerbating grocery costs.
Critics note Trump’s shifting narrative, as he now admits it is “hard to bring things down once they’re up.”
Supporters, however, downplayed price hikes, suggesting cheaper alternatives like instant coffee.
“The way that you lower prices is that you encourage more capital investment into our country,” Vance added.
This clown hasn’t a clue how the economy works.
It’s all gonna trickle down any day now, right?
He knows a lot better than the clowns that voted him in. Lowering prices would mean deflation and that’s pretty much universally seen as a bad thing. The best you can do is increase wages. Of which the GOP will do nothing about.
The plan is to let prices go up (predictably, given tariffs) while forever promising people that prices will come down soon. I’m sure it will happen right after the wealth Reagan promised finally trickles down.
Ah, like Infrastructure Week 2.0
Ah, like the beautiful Healthcare Plan
Apparently the concept of his healthcare plan involves just… turning off Medicare, without warning.
Meanwhile they will keep finding and making enemies to blame the high prices on.
The actual Trickle Down economy: Getting drenched in a golden shower while waiting for your millions
Fun fact: “trickle down economics” is just rebranded horse and sparrow economics. The idea being that if you overfeed your horse, it won’t digest it all and the sparrow will be able to sift through the horse shit to find bits of food to eat.
I don’t think we get the luxury of it being golden with diaper don.
“Supporters, however, downplayed price hikes, suggesting cheaper alternatives like instant coffee.”
Almost like it was never about egg prices at all for alot of them
It was about instant coffee?
The republican plan is to lie and get elected so they can rape the nation. They don’t care about citizens. They are here to make money and take yours.
Conservatism is an oil drill trying to drill entire countries.
increasing capital investment and job creation.
So giving rich people money, same plan as the last forty years.
Brilliant.
You mean the man who said he had concepts of a plan didn’t have a plan? Color me shocked.
He once smelled someone’s seat who had the concept of a plan. That must count for something
It seems like it’s kept in the same binder Trump keeps his healthcare plan and his plan to end the war in Ukraine
Trump just wants to be president, he doesn’t want to do president
Oh hey, that’s his plan for healthcare costs too.
Funny enough, not his plan for how to resolve issues with minorities wanting rights
Executive orders don’t work for things like reigning in corporate greed. They work for everything else. But helping a large portion of the nations backbone? Can’t do it. Won’t even try.
-DJT (probably)
Supporters, however, downplayed price hikes, suggesting cheaper alternatives like instant coffee.
Translation:
Let them eat cake
Eggs… Now coffee… TIL conservatives hate breakfast.
It’s because those gays run bed and breakfasts, up next on the docket for conservatives are beds.
Yeah, these zellenials spending all their time eating avocado taquitos on their memory foam mattresses are destroying the economy. In my day, we slept on asbestos and mouse poop mats and we liked it.
Columbia’s biggest export to the U.S. is crude oil. So oil prices higher from Canada, this would have been higher oil prices from Columbia… But I believe he didn’t do the tarrifs. Guys a dumbass
Well, we’re only 8 days in. Still plenty of time for him to tariff all of our tits off.
Trump should tax the chickens and deport the ones who don’t produce eggs. That’ll scare the others to ramp up production. Trickle down theory for the win. /s
There’s only one way to lower prices. Extremely aggressive government action that will never happen, especially under a Trump adminstration.
First, they would have to hold Congressional hearings and drag the CEOs of these large corporations in front of the House to explain why their profit margins are going up far faster than normal inflation pressures should dictate, and why this trend started during the COVID pandemic. Let these CEOs try to explain away the price gouging and the profiteering. Hold CEOs in contempt if they refuse to answer or give one of those meaningless word salads of buzzwords meant to say a whole lot of nothing, and actually start jailing these bastards for 30 days for trying to tiptoe around it.
Tax profit margins that are above 2019 levels for the industry at 100%. If the average profit margin for the industry in 2019 was 5% and your company suddenly has a 10% margin in 2024, then tax that additional 5% at a 100% tax rate. Make price gouging both illegal and pointless since the government would just take it all anyway.
When CEOs start having to make regular trips to Washington to explain why their profits keep skyrocketing and the government comes in to take all that excess profit anyway, and watch prices come back down.
This, but retroactively as well.
Most of these clowns have no idea of how basic economics work. They don’t even understand basic US history. We tried the tariffs and isolationism route, guess what happened? Great Depression.
Same as their healthcare plan.
Listen, I’ve heard from a very reliable source that there is a concept for a plan.
