Your Groceries Got A Sequel

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Your bread already has a price. Now imagine Lil'meme at the checkout, frantically sticking admission tickets onto every loaf.

Apparently breakfast needs a bouncer.

A tariff is a tax on imported goods. The importer pays it at the border, not the foreign government.

Businesses can absorb some costs or pass some to customers through higher prices. The government's revenue and the shopper's expense can be opposite sides of the same transaction.

CNBC reports that the White House defended continuing tariffs on Nov. 10 despite backlash over rising prices. At the U.S. Chamber's B20 summit in Washington, Jim Goyer, director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, said: "And we are just getting started."

At the same summit, Gary Cohn, the president's former chief economic adviser, said: "Tariffs are a consumption tax on the U.S. consumer."

That's the contradiction: officials defend the policy while consumers can feel its costs at checkout. Tariffs are not the only pressure on household prices; housing and healthcare also contribute.

Nothing in this announcement repealed or softened the tariffs.

The useful takeaway: ask who actually pays a proposed tax before celebrating who supposedly gets punished. A border is not a magic machine that makes somebody else's wallet open.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/10/trump-tariffs-midterms-gary-cohn-inflation.html

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