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Omaha Steve

(105,188 posts)
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 07:55 AM Mar 31

We were just notified of a price increase because of TARIFFS!!! (and climate change)


https://www.peacecoffee.com/

Marta and I have been buying fair trade coffee for over 25 years. We just got this in an email from our non-profit coffee supplier:






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We were just notified of a price increase because of TARIFFS!!! (and climate change) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 31 OP
We received a similar message from a coffee supplier we buy from Best_man23 Mar 31 #1
The GOP Tax-Tariff Bastards are after our money BoRaGard Mar 31 #2
The GOP used to consider all tariffs bad Johnny2X2X Mar 31 #3
I don't see how inflation is going to pay for tax breaks for the rich, gab13by13 Mar 31 #4
We can't afford to support exploitive industries/individuals delisen Mar 31 #5
A lot of MAGAts don't know how tariffs work IronLionZion Mar 31 #6
Republican thinking surfered Mar 31 #7
it's his day off! nt et tu Mar 31 #8
Ha! Of course. surfered Mar 31 #10
Trump's beef with the American people is telling. live love laugh Mar 31 #9

Best_man23

(5,224 posts)
1. We received a similar message from a coffee supplier we buy from
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:04 AM
Mar 31

Guess its across the board. We're still planning to continue buying, though.

As an alternative, we've recently become members of a local food co-operative. We tried the locally roasted, fair trade coffees they sell and found them to be wonderful and also reasonably priced.

BoRaGard

(4,952 posts)
2. The GOP Tax-Tariff Bastards are after our money
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:05 AM
Mar 31

so they can offer more more more tax breaks to the wealthy

Johnny2X2X

(22,725 posts)
3. The GOP used to consider all tariffs bad
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:16 AM
Mar 31

It was one of the few things they were right on.

I am starting to think this has nothing to do with trade and is more becoming a way to tax regular people to pay for their tax cuts for the rich.

gab13by13

(27,645 posts)
4. I don't see how inflation is going to pay for tax breaks for the rich,
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:23 AM
Mar 31

Consumers will stop buying.

IronLionZion

(48,461 posts)
6. A lot of MAGAts don't know how tariffs work
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 09:44 AM
Mar 31

they think someone else pays them. Douchebag literally campaigned on increasing prices and his idiot supporters believed the opposite would happen somehow.

surfered

(6,126 posts)
7. Republican thinking
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 09:53 AM
Mar 31

…They claim the purpose of the tariffs on foreign goods is to make them more expensive and we will choose to buy American products. But if we buy only American goods, then we wouldn’t pay any tariff and there would be no additional tax revenue.

But if we still buy foreign goods and pay the tariffs, generating all that tax revenue, why does their budget still require raising the debt ceiling by $4 trillion?

Anyone, anyone, Bueller?

live love laugh

(15,149 posts)
9. Trump's beef with the American people is telling.
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:00 AM
Mar 31

He knows tariff taxes will hurt us.

He also knows most didn’t vote for him or his insane policies.

Therefore, it’s payback, we must suffer.

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