By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-14 17:08:12 | Updated at 2024-11-28 03:32:29
1 week ago
Food prices worried most voters, but Trump’s plans likely won’t lower their grocery bills
The Associated Press ^ | November 14, 2024 | BY DEE-ANN DURBIN (D-AP)
Posted on 11/14/2024 8:59:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Americans are fed up with the price of food, and many are looking to President-elect Donald Trump to lower their grocery bills.
Trump often railed on the campaign trail against hefty price increases for bacon, cereal, crackers and other items.
“We’ll get them down,” he told shoppers during a September visit to a Pennsylvania grocery store.
But the food price inflation that stunned the U.S. — and other parts of the world — in 2021 and 2022 had complicated causes that are difficult to unwind, from the pandemic to the Ukraine war to avian flu. And many economists think Trump’s plans, including putting tariffs on imported foods and deporting undocumented workers, could actually make food prices rise.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanpravda; associatedpravda; deeanndurbin; election2024; journalism; media; press
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
2 posted on 11/14/2024 9:00:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
AP, gaslighting once again.
3 posted on 11/14/2024 9:01:02 AM PST by Parley Baer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Trump’s plans, including putting tariffs on imported foods and deporting undocumented workers, could actually make food prices rise.
Scare tactics.....
4 posted on 11/14/2024 9:01:29 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: central_va
Drop the cost of energy and watch.
5 posted on 11/14/2024 9:02:05 AM PST by gibsonguy
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I think most of the increase is due to shipping costs. So if fuel is lower, food will come down.
6 posted on 11/14/2024 9:03:17 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
To: gibsonguy
Agreed. Another thing Trump could do is end the federal program that pays some farmers to keep land fallow. Suppressing food production raises food prices.
7 posted on 11/14/2024 9:03:22 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: gibsonguy
8 posted on 11/14/2024 9:06:03 AM PST by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a gift a man gives to himself." - Rob Roy MacGregor)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
9 posted on 11/14/2024 9:06:10 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Considering it’s a prediction from the AP, they’re sure to go down.
10 posted on 11/14/2024 9:06:44 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Her pals, Joe Pedo and Jamaica Mama made sure of it. Once Trump gets the oil industry going again, the prices will be able to fall off.
11 posted on 11/14/2024 9:06:50 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Jamaicans Haitians and Indians used to run motels and 7-11s. Now,they run Congress and the judiciary)
To: gibsonguy
Foods get trucked all over the country...don’t even think of electric trucks....and Drill Baby Drill!!
12 posted on 11/14/2024 9:07:29 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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