Yes, I was agreeing with you. But especially to say that the bulk powder from China can be incredibly cheap, so for a lot of goods the 20$ bottle won't be affected that much by tariffs even if they're at 150%. It's the type of thing with a lot of goods where you can look it up and the bulk amount is cheap but then you have to deal with an entire pallet of something you only need like 5 times ever. So buying the small relatively expensive bottle is still better, and with a wild guess it could only be like 1-4 dollars per bottle more.
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For basic stuff like rice the US produces way more than it needs, the only real imports I see are for specialty stuff like jasmine rice or bhasmati rice from Thailand or India. Basic long grain rice or calrose is domestic and very cheap.
The dollar is internal and farmers make annual purchases so they will have already bought their stuff they need for this season so they shouldn't be too affected by exchange rates. The US makes its own oil and derivatives like fertilizer and farm equipment so they shouldn't be too affected for now.
For this current season specifically there will be a glut of food and not enough buyers. In the future if these farmers go out of business then prices could increase.
There is more supply than needed, we normally make so much we export huge quantities. How does restricted food exports increase prices domestically?
The comments about capitalism and price gouging and stuff are all fine and correct. But that would logically apply whether the exports were restricted or not. But they have to do something with all the food they were going to export or not. Sometimes they'll just burn it or dump milk but they can probably sell, just at a lower price or pay more to ship it farther away. Now long term yes if these farmers go out of business then prices could increase if the supply shrinks but that doesn't really apply to this year.
The problem with the reasoning I see here is that you lot are taking things you heard and applying them to this situation, but you just say capitalism and that's the end of your argument. Supply and demand still affect prices, especially on a large scale and with commodity goods.
No this is for everything including personal devices. It's very simple to just say it's like everyone listening to their phone on speakerphone and the louder it is and the closer you are the more distracting it is to you. Everyone can use it but the more crowded it is the more problems you have. If everyone uses it responsibly then everyone can use it and it's fine. That's why the FCC sets power limits because otherwise you could jack up the signal with a ton of power and no one else can hear anything. For signals it is only the same frequency that interferes with each other but all the space comsats use the same popular KU band so they have to share nicely.
FCC power limits are generally to prevent spectrum corruption, like they don't want your radio to overpower everyone else. So yes, more power is generally better for the signal but it's a shared pool of limited spectrum so your use can hurt other people.
Actually with this really cheap Chinese stuff it will often still be cheaper than another source.
Yeah WIC is very restricted. Food stamps is more like most things that are groceries but not hot ready to serve items.