Shrinkflation reduces size of popular consumer products

"More companies are looking to avoid raising prices to scare off consumers"

so they are saying, we are selling too much stuff, so we either have to raise price or trick them into buying less for the same price

corps don't have to price gouge during this, they choose too

 

Talk about knee jerk reaction. I cannot hurt Democrat politicians or Democrat voters. It is they who make harmful policies and the Democrat voters who put them into office to enact those harmful policies

 

Hopefully shrinkflation will reduce the size of the average American consumer.

 

Yet you did EXACTLY that pumping up Trumps numbers !

There is literally no shame on the right in this country anymore…..NONE

 

Yep, spiking the bowl (not ball), just like Trump's tax cuts. Borrowing money from future generations to fuel a short-term spike in consumption, and, thus, growth. It's the GOP modus operandi since Reagan.

Now, at least there was a reason for the Biden stimulus, since the economy was in the tank due to covid. For Trump's stimulus (err tax cut, or rather tax deferment to future generations), there was ZERO reason, since the economy was humming along just fine in 2017.

 

Show us ONE post where a resident Dem said "Thank you Mr President" for the GDP growth. Just ONE would be good enough.

On the other hand, when Trump had mediocre GDP growth after his tax cuts, the forum Trumpers were falling over themselves with "thank you Trump" threads or "tired of winning yet?".

In my view, what the resident Dems seem to be pointing out (and I am not speaking for them), is that the GDP growth isn't doing so badly under Biden, despite the constant doom and gloom drumbeat from the Trumpers, which sound a lot like sour grapes that the economy didn't tank, as they and Trump had predicted. I haven't seen any resident Dem, however, claim that this GDP growth is BECAUSE of Biden.

 

And the Brandon defenders go on and on about how 'inflation is always happening', which it does, but they're failing to understand that we're getting 20-25 years worth of inflation all at once. Retired people who had a projected amount of wealth to see them through the rest of their lives are coming up short by ****ing DECADES as result of this and these leftists just don't get it (or they don't give a damn).

 

Kind of like how the righties don't care about the tax burden constantly being shifted, more and more, from the rich to the middle class for ***ing DECADES.
Righties just don't get it (or they don't give a damn).

 

You literally make things from whole cloth

Corporations have been doing this for YEARS. Blaming this on some democratic policies is just laughable. So when corporations in the early 80's started selling products by "volume" and pumping their packaging with air, instead of by selling by weight was that because of Reagans republican polices ?

 

No, its not at all like that. What are you referring to? https://taxfoundation.org/historical-income-tax-rates-brackets/

 

You understand that using "rates" to determine who pays what is beyond disingenuous to the debate right ?

In America today, it's not what tax rate you pay, it's what you're required to pay tax ON.

 

After an economic decline of 3.4% in 2020, netting 2.3% in 2021. Nothing to brag about.

 

I challenge both of you to show that this is being done to increase profits, rather than cover increasing hard costs.

OMG! Capitalism!

"These companies should operate at a loss because our government is stupid!"

 

Absolute bullshit.

The middle and upper classes pay BY FAR the most tax, even as a comparison as percentage of income. Your class war fare is not only ignorant, it's based on completely false data.

 

LOL! You are adding Trump's negative 2020 GDP growth number to Biden's, just to make Biden look worse? We can play that game too: Biden's growth in 2021 was 9.1 better than Trump's in 2020. Biden must be a genius (that's sarcasm).

 

Anybody with an ounce of logic, and character, realizes that the 2020 economic dip was a temporary pandemic driven slow down with a short term correction caused wholly by an outside influence.

But if you want to pretend that didn't occur so you can have your celebration... have at it.

 

Anyone with an ounce of logic would also realize that covid never went away since early 2020, and continues to impede the economy, in particular the job market, including the omicron wave that is currently ravaging the country. You just want to have it both ways, you want covid as an excuse for Trump's poor 2020 numbers, but somehow covid can't be used as an excuse for Biden in 2021.
If you were consistent with your views, it would be okay, but otherwise it is just mindless Biden bashing.

Me, I am fully aware that Trump was not to blame for the 2020 recession. He just didn't handle the fallout very well, including convincing a large number of his supporters that covid is a hoax, which is still holding the country back because many of his supporters are unvaccinated, currently filling the hospitals and having to take time off work. That's on trump only.

 

What I don't understand is the connection you're trying to make with inflation.

 

What are you talking about "inflation " ?

 

And the dishonesty rolls on with you.....

You KNOW the economy shut down in 2020 because of covid.

You also KNOW it is largely opened back up despite covid still being around.

That you're even hinting that covid had the same, or even similar, impact on the economy in 2021 as it did in 2020 is pathetic partisanship.

If you were consistent in your views it would be okay, but otherwise it is just mindless Biden defending.

 

That was what you I and others were talking about when you replied to me...

 

HUH ? You posted this link to RATES ! https://taxfoundation.org/historical-income-tax-rates-brackets/

 

And asked what you were referring to.

 

It is? I thought you all just celebrated historic low unemployment rates. Are you claiming that's not true?

The irony.

What? An excuse? It's trying to be used to show he is doing well.

I'm not so sure what's hard about this.

The downturn was not Trumps fault, it was caused by an outside influence. The recovery is not Trump or Bidens success, it should be expected when the outside influence is removed. Not complicated for non-partisans.

I am. It's you who is flipping back and forth in which ever manner serves your partisan agenda.

Good, we agree.

Sigh. There it is.

Go turn MSNBC back on.

 

Biden did that!

Bidenflation: Fed’s Favorite Inflation Measure Soared 5.8% in 2021, Worst in 39 Years
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2...measure-soared-5-8-in-2021-worst-in-39-years/