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Old 08-09-2025, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Ptmcbriz View Post
Compounding the inflation are the tariffs. I recently bought a E-bike from Germany. When the time came for DHL to deliver it, I got an email from our lovely government (and confirmation from DHL) that I had to pay a $1800 import fee (aka tariff) before they could release it for delivery. The tariffs are skyrocketing prices for citizens. This is crazy on top of our high expense of interest rates. If the whole idea is to get US citizens to stop buying things, these tariffs will definitely do it. Unfortunately, that means many businesses going out of business as a result.
I agree. Small farmers are already going out of business.......and killing themselves!