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    Further propagating the misinformation that the President has any reasonably effective way to lower grocery prices? Nixon’s grocery price fixing was an unmitigated disaster. An Executive Order is the only tool in the President’s toolbox for controlling grocery prices without congressional legislation. Biden couldn’t lower prices in 2020, just as Trump can’t lower them in 2024.

    POTUS is responsible for many important things. The price of a bottle of Coke is not one of them.

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      Presidents and administrations might not be able to dictate specific prices, but they can and do enact laws and regulations that influence or even define the economy. Trump’s proposed tariffs are expected –not just by economists, but by markets, as seen after the election– to raise prices and, if they are enacted and result in the predicted outcome, fingers should be pointed at his Orangeness.

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        The President does not create laws, Congress does. The President can repeal laws, which doesn’t help in this context.

        Tariffs are not laws. They are an additional tax, and you’re correct in stating that they certainly won’t lower prices.

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          The tariff establishes the market floor. Trump can enact tariffs without congress. It will be setting the economy on several market vectors.

          If you don’t know how it works, don’t post troll content. #NotFeedingFurther #BrandolinisLaw

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            No additional tariff is capable of lowering a product’s price. It’s simply a way to give domestic production a competitive advantage without them lowering their prices.

            My point is about the President’s limitations on fixing or lowering grocery prices, not raising them.

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                The Chicken Wars resulted in more expensive European imported chicken, not less expensive domestic chicken.

                Not a single response in this thread has explained how a president can lower grocery store prices, and I’m the troll?

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      POTUS is responsible for many important things. The price of a bottle of Coke is not one of them.

      I kept asking all the ding-a-lings that were going on about the price of eggs and blaming Biden what exact mechanism Biden used to cause inflation, etc…

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        Please educate me. Explain how the President can quickly fix grocery prices without an Executive Order? I haven’t seen anything else that can be done solely by the President.

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          Man, you really don’t get it do you?

          1. I never insinuated that a President could affect grocery prices, I said Democrats should be savvy enough to realize they should hold his promises against him, which clearly you are not.

          2. Americans that on average read at a sixth grade level don’t give a flying fuck if the President can magically fix grocery prices or not, it’s what they want to believe and what they tell themselves so they can sleep through the hunger at night.

          I honestly don’t get how bad Democrats are at actually talking to people and connecting to regular people. You just hammer away that the guy in charge of the party in charge promised to fix your prices, you point out repeatedly that prices went up under their watch, regardless if it was their fault or not, and you outline how you will fix it, lie or not, in some folksy twang and not act like a giant pretentious douche talking down to the American public. Hell Democrats don’t even have to lie if they would actually listen to what progressives have been trying to tell you Democrats, “It’s the economy and the billionaire stupid”.

          I’d be watching those egg prices and blame Republicans for the rise in egg prices as soon as he takes his oath but you know Democrats won’t be doing that, they’re not smart enough and savvy enough to do it.