Biden wants to raise taxes again

[RTchoke]

You do know the difference between laughing and being pissy right? Well, maybe you don’t…

[PurpnGold]

@RTchoke

@PurpnGold

@RTchoke

@PurpnGold

I shop at the higher end… by mostly organic produce… grass fed beef… so on. My groceries have always been expensive.

Is that supposed to impress me?

Calm down. I’m not trying to impress anyone over the internet. The fact that you took it that way is a you problem

I’m just stating why my grocery bill hasn’t risen 15-30%.

That you even felt you needed to say that says “pretentious” all day long.

I gave you a likely reason. That’s it.

[Samm]

@PurpnGold

@Samm

@PurpnGold

@Samm

@thinkingman

@mobiusptc

Why don’t you want to discuss the thread topic , which is planned tax increases by incoming administration?

The incumbent is Biden. Let’s talk about his grocery price record. he keeps supporting sending dozens and dozens of billions of dollars to your 51st state Ukraine and he also wants to increase taxes yet fantastic should he run on this platform?

We (the wife & I) have tallied our grocery slips every calendar year since 1975. But for just the last three years, our food bill (not counting restaurants or alcohol) went from $12,080 in 2021 to $14,207 (+17.6%) in 2022 to &16,910 (+19.0%) in 2023. That’s a whopping 40% in three years under Biden’s economic turnaround.

By the way, in 1975 we spent a grand total of $1987.63 for food for the two of us.

You both eat a lot. I spend about $400-$450 a week for a family of 4. That’s about 20k a year. We shop at Sprouts, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods. So we aren’t exactly shopping at bargain places. We could cut our bill by about $50-$100 a week if we shopped at like ALDIs or something like that.

This is in California btw. Now I know our produce is typically cheaper than most of the country because some of it is locally produced.

It has very little if anything to do with how much we eat. It has to do with where we live. Nearly 100% of our groceries are imported and we are at the far end of the transportation chain. We buy almost no red meat except for hamburger and almost no processed “junk food” or “soft drinks.” We as a couple probably take in fewer than 4000 calories a day.

The point of my post was to reflect the increase in the cost of food over the last three years, not how much it costs.

Fair. My costs have barely increased at all in the last 3 years. Maybe 10%? But it’s a little difficult to tell since we eat more now than 3 years ago

How do you know? Do you keep close track like I do?

[Samm]

@PurpnGold

@RTchoke

@Samm

The point of my post was to reflect the increase in the cost of food over the last three years, not how much it costs.

But that’s the inconvenient part they don’t want to talk about, that’s why the conversation was purposely diverted.

It wasn’t diverted. He talked about his food spending and I commented on that number.

No you didn’t, you commented on how much I ate:

@PurpnGold

You both eat a lot.

[Samm]

@PurpnGold

I’m not trying to impress anyone over the internet.

Now there is an outright falsehood.

[Toll_Collector]

@PurpnGold

@RTchoke

@PurpnGold

I shop at the higher end… by mostly organic produce… grass fed beef… so on. My groceries have always been expensive.

Is that supposed to impress me?

Calm down. I’m not trying to impress anyone over the internet. The fact that you took it that way is a you problem

I’m just stating why my grocery bill hasn’t risen 15-30%.

I do the same as you. I buy the higher end stuff. But being that it’s always expensive, you might not notice the rise. Grass fed beef by me went up from 6 dollars a pound to 7.50 a pound. That’s not much to me. But I think that’s 25% unless my math is wrong.

[Oldandtired]

Focus this is a thread about biden. Leave your tds at the door. There are plenty of threads to about trump to go to. I knew it is hard to defend your failure of a President.

[Oldandtired]

Focus on the thread topic biden raising tax’s.

[WuWei]

If he gets a 2nd term…

[gooddad409]

@Oldandtired

Focus on the thread topic biden raising tax’s.

Biden raising taxes and causing inflation to explode during his term.

The things they don’t want to talk about.

[SixFoot]

@RTchoke

To claim they have barely raised in 3 years? Even the media says your are wrong.

Lying out their jack ass*

[Samm]

@PurpnGold

I’m just stating why my grocery bill hasn’t risen 15-30%.

And I still submit that you have no clue about how much you have spent on groceries over the years.

[PurpnGold]

@Samm

@PurpnGold

I’m just stating why my grocery bill hasn’t risen 15-30%.

And I still submit that you have no clue about how much you have spent on groceries over the years.

Maybe you aren’t familiar but there are literal apps that track spending.

[Samm]

@PurpnGold

@Samm

@PurpnGold

I’m just stating why my grocery bill hasn’t risen 15-30%.

And I still submit that you have no clue about how much you have spent on groceries over the years.

Maybe you aren’t familiar but there are literal apps that track spending.

So what?

[PurpnGold]

@Samm

@PurpnGold

@Samm

@PurpnGold

I’m just stating why my grocery bill hasn’t risen 15-30%.

And I still submit that you have no clue about how much you have spent on groceries over the years.

Maybe you aren’t familiar but there are literal apps that track spending.

So what?

I use one. So yes I know what I spend. All the way back to 2014….

[Samm]

@PurpnGold

@Samm

@PurpnGold

@Samm

@PurpnGold

I’m just stating why my grocery bill hasn’t risen 15-30%.

And I still submit that you have no clue about how much you have spent on groceries over the years.

Maybe you aren’t familiar but there are literal apps that track spending.

So what?

I use one. So yes I know what I spend. All the way back to 2014….

Sure you do …

[STODR]

Lol, I am guessing you don’t do the shopping. Post your grocery receipt. I bet we can show you how much it would have been 2 years ago.

[Camp]

Trump cut taxes and raised tax revenue during his first term.

He pledged to do the same on Saturday in Wildwood NJ.

Donald Trump pledges tax cuts for ‘middle class, upper class, lower class,...

[SixFoot]

@Samm

And I still submit that you have no clue about how much you have spent on groceries over the years.

People on food stamps don’t track anything but the refill date.

[Toll_Collector]

@STODR

Lol, I am guessing you don’t do the shopping. Post your grocery receipt. I bet we can show you how much it would have been 2 years ago.

My wife does most of the shopping. I only get a few things from time to time, so I don’t notice the difference. I notice the 25% uptick in ground beef because that’s what I usually buy.

What I do notice is the rise in things I am charged with purchasing. The electric chainsaw I bought a year and a half ago for 160 bucks, is now 330 bucks. I did get 20% off. The large 44" blade ride on mower I got back in 2019 for 1100 bucks I don’t even see for sale anymore. Smaller ones at Lowes are now 2000-2500 bucks. Neither item would I purchase at the prices they are today. Simply not worth it.