Lay off the cough medicine. It’s not even noon!
If, in your somewhat indecipherable post, you’re comparing $600 apples to $1 apples, then the buyer of the $1 apple is receiving a 99.833% saving over the chump who paid $600.
Not a 100% saving, nor a 300% or 600% one (all of which President Trump has used to measure savings.)
Percentages are introduced in the 4th or 5th grade. If you still are having a problem with this, please consult your grandchildren.
I had a feeling you wouldn’t get it.
But here we go.
When you stupidly pay $600 for an apple that costs others $1, when you eventually get that price of $1, it’s almost as if you get getting 100% change. Practically free.
And if those used to paying $1 all of a sudden is charged $600, the difference to what they used to pay vs what they are getting gouged for now, can be expressed in a percentage.
That’s how percentages can be expressed above 100%.
You know who feels the percentage changed the most from those who were charged $600 vs. the $1?
The people who used to pay $600, practically get it for free for a $1.
Nearly 100% off.
But the crooks charging the separate prices feel the sting. They no longer get the $600 from all the suckers now.
And now you can thank Trump for literally saving you hundreds and hundreds of $ every apple you pay for at $1, because if if ever gets back to $600, that’s more than 100% increase.
A price change of $1 to $2 could be considered an 100% increase.. 100% of what you used to pay vs what you pay now.
I know it’s not the easiest concept, but when people are being charged different prices for the exact same thing, the differences between those two price points can be expressed as a %.
If someone reduces what one person is charged to what others are being charged, that can be looked at as a percentage difference.
The apple sellers are crooks if they charge you $600 and someone else $1.
Your govt is trying to stop that from happening.
And in the process, cutting prices over 100s of percentage points, when comparing apples to apples.