I think every business should 100% show the tariff costs as a separate line item like you would a sales tax.

Not at all for political reasons, but simply because if we not, you 100% know that those businesses are not going to lower prices after tariffs. As a separate line item, it should just disappear after tariffs , but burying it into the cost. That sounds pretty dangerous for consumers.

But showing people the direct effects of Trumps policies is a hostile political act!

Yeah, that was a very embarrassing statement by the Whitehouse. But let's just drop all that politics, we're all consumers here one way or another. This is in our interest to have it broken out.

This isn't the 1970s anymore, there's limited market competition due to the gov't allowing considerable consolidation via acquisition in lots of market segments. It's not that hard to envision the increase in prices staying even after tariffs disappear.

I would think every single person here posting would want this.

This post was edited by SBD on Apr 30 2025 09:14am

Of course it's a political act.

We've just lived through the highest inflation in 40 years driven by forced closed downs to flatten the curve then trillions of excess spending afterwards. Both of these policies hugely pushed for and implemented by Democrats. Remember how the framing was about the economy vs saving lives and Republicans blamed for wanting to kill old people and being heartless unless they agree to close everything and send the checks?

I paid 50% more for my house vs the neighbor two houses down that bought her house in 2018. Food, housing literally everything went up by 30-40% cumulatively during the last few years. Where was the Amazon transparency then? Or is it because big tech margins and stock multiples went through the roof during that time span, they weren't concerned about explaining why everything is going up in price for the consumer huh, really makes you think.

Today their volume might be down leading to contracting sales which may lead to some margin pressure and all of the sudden they've caught the transparency bug. Stunning and brave, truly.

Trump was president for the shut downs and he also pushed a bunch of stimulus spending. I think it's kind of obvious that inflation in the US wasn't based on Biden spending because it was a global phenomenon. These are just facts brah, I don't really care about partisan retrospective analysis that no voter cares about.

The only partisan statement I stand behind is Trump deserves criticism for operation warp speed because that's what caused all these needless deaths.

This is a joke btw, making fun of the fact that Trump cultists were the people most opposed to the greatest achievement of the 1st Trump administration.

This post was edited by IceMage on Apr 30 2025 06:42pm

Zero people did not ask if companies were not just gouging and using "inflation" as the reasoning, and to this day most if not everyone still wonders why the lingering price increases exist. Why am I still paying a fortune for plywood, or a 2x4. People also share that same concern over Tariffs, political or not, you have to take any inch corporations give consumers, we have little to no protection, little to no transparency (lets face it 8 and 10K filings really offer minimal insight to the average consumer) and so if you deem it political or not, we should be highly encouraging it. At-least if gives the consumer the ability to ask why that line item is still on my purchase if the tariffs disappear. This gov't is already gutting consumer protection which I know you do not agree with, I think at this point we should just advocate for anything we can get transparency wise.

Probably everyone here desires significantly more transparency, if its got to be political, I really don't care.