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Omaha Steve

(104,977 posts)
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 07:55 AM Yesterday

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

Best_man23

(5,211 posts)
1. We received a similar message from a coffee supplier we buy from
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:04 AM
Yesterday

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

(4,680 posts)
2. The GOP Tax-Tariff Bastards are after our money
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:05 AM
Yesterday

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

Johnny2X2X

(22,603 posts)
3. The GOP used to consider all tariffs bad
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:16 AM
Yesterday

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

(27,328 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
Yesterday

Consumers will stop buying.

IronLionZion

(48,237 posts)
6. A lot of MAGAts don't know how tariffs work
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 09:44 AM
Yesterday

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

surfered

(5,800 posts)
7. Republican thinking
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 09:53 AM
Yesterday

…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

(15,096 posts)
9. Trump's beef with the American people is telling.
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:00 AM
Yesterday

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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