The use of dairy as an example is one of the dumbest I’ve ever heard. The cost of groceries is largely dependent on the price of diesel fuel for use in farm machinery and truckers. As for milk prices they will reduce the prices when you come toward the sell-by date or the stores have to throw them out. If people don’t buy it they reduce it because demand goes lower.
They can’t raise them above the tariffs or they will make the Chinese bads (can’t call the “goods” because they’re so shoddy) to be cheaper again and defeat the purpose. Prices go up when demand goes up anyway, even if we all decided to buy domestic without a tariff. Once supply catches up to demand the prices will adjust accordingly. Or the trade war could end by both parties agreeing to real free trade rather than the current “free” trade where we get charged tariffs for our goods and can’t charge others for theirs. Already companies based overseas are investing in factories here to avoid tariffs: factories that will give Americans jobs that pay better.
The law I reference is metaphorical: it is the idea that I can take someone’s life because I feel he has caused harm to others. Where does that end? Mangione believed he had a right to kill a man because he felt he had harmed others: if I feel Mangione has harmed others (which he has, and not just Brian Thompson) by the same judgment he rendered I have the right to kill him: see where that leads?
