In fact, shoppers are only starting to feel tariffs...
Year to year since mid-2017 the inflation rate has declined. Only a crazed leftard would try to explain
lower prices by claiming
higher prices. Y'all are bat-shit nuts, SillyBooBoo.
Huh? All I said is first Trump's trade war hurt corporations...
As usual you not only have no idea what you are talking about, you have no idea what you've posted ... "In fact, shoppers are only starting to feel tariffs..."
No they aren't.
Your problem hasn't changed a bit in the years you've posted your baseless, leftarded opinions here ... you're a mindless IDIOT far more interested in what the little voices in your toaster tell you than truth or facts and unwilling to learn either.
Huh? I just said consumers haven't even started feeling the tariffs. But I'm in manufacturing. We are feeling it already. Coming soon, prices are going to go up. Don't say we didn't warn you.
So you can't read your own words or you don't understand their meaning?
What a leftarded maroon.
Na. I just sound like you when Obama was president.
Only the things I want to do will help improve the middle class. Your side won't allow those things to be done. You cry class warfare. But then when Bush or Trump get into office you immediately start giving rich people tax breaks and suggest America is great again for the middle class? Far from it.
Trump's tax breaks stimulated the economy big time for a year. Now the stimulus is over. And the middle class is just where it was in Obama's last year in office. Maybe $1 raise. BFD. Pathetic.
Democrats are middle class first. Republicans are trickle down and we all know that doesn't work unless you are rich.
Hell even I don't like trickle down and I made $100K a year and have zero debt. If I don't like it, why would any American family making less than me like it? They are still not doing as well as they did in 1970. Back then employees shared in the profits.
I recently wrote about one of the things that has gone wrong in the U.S. economy — namely, that
big American corporations are no longer sharing enough of their vast wealth with their rank-and-file employees.
The second chart shows that the companies are now paying the lowest wages in history as a percent of the economy.
If you happen to be an owner of a big American corporation, these charts could be construed as good news: You're coining it!
If you happen to be a rank-and-file employee, however — or someone hoping to be such an employee — this is bad news: You're sharing less than ever before in the success of American industry.
Why?
Because the rank-and-file employees of America's corporations are also mainstream American consumers — the folks who account for ~70% of the spending in the economy.
Almost every dollar these folks earn in salaries gets spent — on food, clothing, houses, education, entertainment, cars, and other goods and services that big American companies produce.
So, if, instead of hoarding their wealth by hiking their profit margins ever higher, companies invested more in employees and equipment, they would help the whole economy.
And the companies would also, of course, help their employees — the people who are dedicating their lives to helping the companies earn such vast profits.

It's an "ownership society," all right. Everyone else is getting the shaft.
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You might think that voluntarily helping employees by sharing more profits with them would be something corporations would be very eager to do.
After all, again, these employees are dedicating their lives to making the companies so successful.
But, no.
The business-ethos pendulum in this country has now swung so far toward "profit maximization" that most American companies would never dream of voluntarily sharing more wealth with their employees.
These employees, after all, are not viewed as people. They're viewed as "costs" — cash outflows that just leech financial value from owners.
In a healthy capitalist ecosystem, companies serve several constituencies, not just owners. Namely, they serve:
- Owners
- Customers
- Employees, and
- Society
In today's version of American capitalism, however, too many companies are mostly serving only one constituency: Owners. "Profit maximization" is the number one — and, in many cases, only — priority.