cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28885132

i can't read "the government of canada" without the little jingle playing in my head

You had me right up until "grocery bill". The US is a net agricultural exporter. Groceries are one thing tariffs have the least impact on.

Well that's idiotic reasoning. We import different things than we export. We're still paying tariffs on everything we import, which raises the prices of those products. And probably a lot of the other items, too, because corporations see an opportunity to mask their greed. Same thing happened during the pandemic.

We don't get tariffs back from the exports. These things don't cancel out

Omg i love this so much..

Don't kbow about "idiotic reasoning." It might be incorrect reasonong, or not quite right, or wrong, but idiotic? You have a better argument but I think it's worth trying for us to not be Reddit. 😄

Ah, a classic.

How are we paying tariffs on agricultural goods we produce locally?

Tariffs are a tax on your groceries bill paid by the Government of Canada

So good

We're not. I never said we were. We're paying tariffs on the agricultural goods that we import.

Being net exporters doesn't mean we import nothing.

It means we export more than we import.

Just because we export $101 worth of corn doesn't mean we aren't paying tariffs on $100 of coffee and bananas we import. But the corn producers might raise their prices anyway, because everything else going up provides cover for it.

Not all of our groceries are produced locally, so we pay tariffs on those. Also, increased prices for imported goods will cause inflation in the price of domestic goods.

Where do I apply to have my groceries paid for by the Canadian government?

Do I get to decide which part? Because if so, I want either the Auditor General or the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner to suck at their jobs by personally doing so!

How much is that coffee that you grow in the US? What about mangoes and many many other agricultural products.

Maybe think before posting and you won't look infantile.

How much of your grocery bill is coffee and mangos?

Happy cake day!

That's so sweet of you Canada

At least 50%

Shout out, Canada

Were these in Canada, or in the northern US?

How much do you have left for candles?