Velveeta Cheese went from $3.99 to $7.99. Do Velveeta plants grow only in Mexico ?
if the mexicans want to make guacamole and eat takis....they're still paying for the wall.
The market would adjust, and other sources for these goods would provide them for just a little more than the Mexican goods.
Basic market theory.
Trade and tariff wars are not good for anyone.
I disagree. The peso today is down roughly 10% against the dollar.
That increase in dollar to peso purchasing power will cut that 20% border
tax effectively in half. The peso could very well drop even more, further offsetting any border taxes.
A stronger dollar/weaker peso will incent our muchachos from south of the border to get here and work for American $ however.
The only way the end price of a commercially prepared end food product goes up 20% because one of the ingredients goes up 20% is if the end price does not include labor to process, transportation, rent and energy costs of the producer, etc.
And now we see liberal understanding of how business works in an empirical example. NO wonder they think that any other tax is supposed to be absorbed by the retailer and not passed along to the customer.
Well, lessee. Add up the cost of having them here in the first place in terms of welfare dollars, free medical, free housing, costs of cleaning up the crimes they commit and deduct that from higher food costs, and I’m guessing we’ll have a cash surplus.
Americans don’t make tomato paste and “snack foods” anymore? I didn’t know that. I tried to choke down some guacamole once but it didn’t work out. I’m pretty sure we grow avocados in the U.S. though.
Isn’t guacamole a mexican dish?
Chips are easy to make at home.
What grain, fruit or vegetable cannot be grown in America?
I can’t think of one.
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I’ll accept a 10% grocery increase if it saves me 60% on the related economic costs of incubating illegal inhabitants.
A tax on imported goods is a tax on US taxpayers. I would rather see a heavy tax on remittances to Mexico. That is money taken out of our economy, much of it through illegal labor, and put into the Mexican economy.
Will this affect Taco Bell?
Didn’t think so.
A tariff is not a tax at retail, but wholesale. Fruit and veggies have huge mark-ups. It's more likely the item cost $1 wholesale, which means the cost goes up .20.
We only get organic fruits and vegetables produced in America..Mexico can keep their crap there is nothing from them that I want
Mexican food is vile anyway. - always looks post-digested or regurgitated.
Guacamole SUCKS!
Now Guasacaca! That's some good eatin'.
Trade bankrupt cities, overwhelmed medical services, and the rule of law for cheap guacamole.
Sure thing, Jeb!
Holy Guacamole!
Avocados are already really expensive. If they start to cost that much more people will grow them and sell them!
I agree. a lot of increased price BS. Probably true temporarily, but Americans either already produce or will produce all that is necessary. IMHO it is SNAP Food Stamps that make things so expensive. Half the country produces little and the producers have to pay for it.
Let the Mayonnaise war begin!