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Zero businesses passed on the additional costs onto the consumer? None?

• gruez 6mo ago
  >Zero businesses passed on the additional costs onto the consumer? None? That wasn't the claim made. OP said: >and businesses absorbed the vast majority of the blow through both stockpiling and taking the bullet. Which so far as I can tell, is approximately correct, even if the "vast majority" part is suspect. A goldman sacs from last year estimated consumers will pay 55% of the tariffs by end of 2025. However that only includes the tariffs paid, whereas OP also included "stockpiling". https://abcnews.com/Business/new-tariffs-effect-us-consumers-footing-half-burden/story?id=126504280 https://abcnews.com/Business/new-tariffs-effect-us-consumers...
  • travisporter 6mo ago
    OP also says "This would be a valid concern if..." so, no need to defend these poor massive businesses who also screwed us with shrinkflation for five years.
    • UncleOxidant 6mo ago
      Yeah, that was quite a claim. I didn't realize that businesses were were so altruistic?
    • twoodfin 6mo ago
      Why those particular five years and not always?