Restaurants showing price increase due to min wage increase
Republicans : good people should know
Amazon showing tariff increase
Republicans: HOW DARE YOU!
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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For awhile my former employer put "obamacare cost increase" on my paycheck.
Please explain? I no understand?
A false story is pushed that Amazon will reveal tariff pricing. The government pushes back hard and threatens Amazon. Amazon backs down.
The truth is Amazon never planned on revealing anything at all. They are playing a role to help this asshole administration. This process serves as a warning to any other businesses that talk about revealing anything to do with tariff price increases and stifling the discussion.
This keeps a large block of the populace in the dark about the matter.
Why would the tRump regime try and pretend to be subtle about this? they have had no problem saying much more heinous and illegal things.
It's not necessarily just about subtlety, it's forced compliance in advance.
If you saw a business doing this, it doesn't just send the message that the rise in prices is Trump's fault, but that the business is calling them out on it and is not getting punished for it.
This is the new bully beating up the biggest kid to establish dominance.
Temu did it. For some reason the narrative that Amazon was doing it spread rapidly in US news with absolutely no source attributed. Someone was pushing that narrative.
Correct. They were never going to choose their employees and customers over Trump.
Because they are on the same team.
I also like to make claims without presenting any credible sources to support them. We're getting as feverish, isolated, and conspiracy-minded as /r/thedonald was. Don't let them make you blind to actual, credible horrible stuff that is happening and drivel like this, because it will give you outrage fatigue and have you distrust literally everything that doesn't agree with your preconceived (and increasingly extremist) opinions.
Costco should implement this right fucking now, and call it the trump tariff tax.
Every mom and pop online retailer, every eBay seller, every Etsy seller should have trump tariff taxes list on their products.
Coders should make easy to implement add-ons for all major online retail POS systems and supply them freely.
Also consumers will think “oh Amazon was trying to be the good guy here. And now when I shop there I will expect things to cost a bit more. “
It actually is a classic fascist thing: it makes the target, Amazon in this case, culpable in maintaining the lie, which opens the door to bigger lies down the road.
Somebody ought to write a browser extension or user script that modifies the Amazon page to call out the price increases due to tariffs. (Even if it can't necessarily know directly, it could at least pull camelcamelcamel data from before the tariffs started and subtract, or something like that.)
Just rename it from tariffs cost to freedom tax or some bullshit. "Cost of not filing tax" would go along the bullshit fantasy they're trying to push.
This administration could have gotten away with 10-20% here and there, but straight 3 digit tariffs on China products is going to feel like a slap on the face to a lot of people
It's worse than that though, because of how unpredictable and on a whim he's been doing all this.
There's going to be empty shelves starting in the next week or two. We're just hitting the first wave of hundred of cancelled cargo shipments from China. The supply chain has finally caught up to the start of this bullshit. Prices are going to skyrocket as products run out
They should called it "Trump Tariffs Tax"
Using a price-tracking site or browser extension should make it obvious.
Though it is imporant to weigh that people are going to measure the increases in costs against what they believe to be the cause, accurate or not.
Right now any cost increases are going to be blamed on tariffs no matter how (in)accurate that may be to any given price increase.
The overall narrative has to change or Amazon has to eat the price increases before this scenario feasibly plays out. Currently this just focuses on the tariffs further.
Why would they have to eat it? Just set the new price and people buy it.
Evidence: trust me bro