Are prices going up in the United States because of Tariffs?
@lifecoachjerusalem (1423)
Israel
September 27, 2025 1:05pm CST
I see on the news that the Tariffs are causing prices to go up.
Have you personally been able to see the new prices?
How does this affect your buying habits?
Are there products that you are not able to buy now?
In Israel, there are products from the United States, but I don't buy them anymore.
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@LeaPea2417 (38554)
• Toccoa, Georgia
27 Sep
Everything is going up here in the States even before Tariffs started.
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@porwest (109473)
• United States
28 Sep
Biden's first year in office saw 10% based on two key policy issues. The American Rescue Plan and reversing Trump's energy policies. When Trump left in January of 2021, inflation was 1.9%. By December of 2021 it was 10%. Biden's cumulative inflation totals were around 21.2%, meaning his average annual inflation was around 5.3%. Current inflation is 2.9%.
Tariffs have not caused a penny of inflation.
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@lifecoachjerusalem (1423)
• Israel
28 Sep
@porwest How are the prices in your local stores? Have they gone up or down? Which things that you buy are more expensive?
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@porwest (109473)
• United States
28 Sep
@lifecoachjerusalem Like I said, inflation currently stands at 2.9%. That means prices are rising at least at that rate. Now, that's a mean number, so some sectors are going up more and some are going up less, but everything is still going up.
GDP in the United States is only at 2.8% growth, so that means we're still behind the curve when it comes to catching up to the inflation. If we were at the desired 2% inflation and GDP was at 2.8% we'd be GAINING spending power.
What we need to do is to get GDP up and inflation down in order to correct the curve.
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@porwest (109473)
• United States
28 Sep
The short answer is no.
Prices are going up because inflation is still at 2.9%.
Here's the thing, we suffered through four years of Joe Biden and we're trying to work our way out of that. But it will take time. Prices will NOT go down. That's not how inflation works. The ONLY way prices go down is if DEflation occurs, which is a worse economic situation than inflation is.
If we experience DEFLATION, we will find ourselves on our way to another Great Depression. We don't want that.
So, all we can do is make policy that SLOWS inflation down to the desired 2% level or lower and wait for wages to catch up to current prices. It's the only way out of this.
Tariffs will IMPROVE our chances of doing that because it encourages foreign businesses to do business IN the United States to avoid paying them, and that investment could lead to more jobs and potentially higher paying ones, strengthening our ability to catch up to the inflation that already occurred.
When Donald Trump left office in January of 2021, inflation was at 1.9%. By December of 2021, 11 months into Biden's presidency, inflation had jumped to 10%. It continued to rise throughout his presidency, achieving accumulative inflation of around 21.2%.
ALL of the inflation came from the Biden administration, and what Trump is having to do now is to DEAL with it. But he didn't create it. And he's actually LOWERING it even if we aren't yet down to that 2%.
Here's where most people get confused. They think if inflation lowers, prices will go down. This is not how it works. Prices cannot and will not go down. We have to grow the economy FASTER than the rate of inflation in order to balance prices with wages.
But again, this will take time.
Tariifs are not and were never part of the problem. Biden's economic policy was. If tariffs were inflationary the way the left wants to present it, we'd see inflation BEYOND Biden's first year 10%.
Again, current inflation is 2.9% and lowering. HOW is that a tariff issue?
