After more than a year after basically running on how bad inflation was under the Biden Administration, but when Biden left, inflation was back down to 2.9%, and now under Trump it's at 4% and climbing. Trump has been at this for a while.

Trump Just Said That Affordability "Doesn't Mean Anything To Anybody," And It's Out There Even For Him
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-just-said-that-affordability-doesn-t-mean-anything-to-anybody-and-it-s-out-there-even-for-him/ar-AA1RAnP4


Trump doubles down after dismissing affordability concerns amid Iran war
thehill.com/homenews/administration/5881166-donald-trump-affordability-iran-war-comments/

Trump apologists dismiss the public outrage at Trump, saying that he didn't mean it that way, and it was only about Iran having nukes, but Trump is unable to apologize for anything and insists that he means it.


Where I live, gasoline is up 70% more than it was when Biden left office. Along with all the other stuff that went up in price thanks to Trump's illegal tariffs.

I don't care much about gas prices. I can always walk or take a bus. And from the number of folks I see sitting outside of the grocery store idling their humongous SUVs and pick-ups with the AC on full blast while they wait an hour for their wives neither do a lot of other folks.

What I do care about is the price of food and the taxes I pay so that government officials can, go on expensive trips, ride around in limos, and enjoy steak dinners and imported wine and liquor.

Everything is up...gas, food, utilities, healthcare. Just so the rich can get richer and the less fortunate can get scammed even more.

Obviously you haven't been grocery shopping in the last couple of years.

Price Increases on Key Grocery Staples

Coffee: Up 55%
Romaine Lettuce: Up 38%
Ground Beef: Up 31%
Steak: Up 21%

Over here things are unbelievably expensive.
Petrol is around E2,55 a litre! There's 3,78 litres in 1 gallon which makes it a whopping $9,64 per gallon.
I seriously doubt YOU pay THAT much!
It will go up next year as this year they've extended the lower tax period. But... tax on petrol is 84,47% per litre?! And 21% VAT per litre.
Meaning petrol doesn't have to be this expensive at all.
It's all about ripping us off with high taxes.
On top of that the petrol that currently is sold is old stock. Meaning purchased at the old lower price but nonetheless sold for a frigging fortune as if it was purchased today for higher price.

Grocery shopping is ridiculously expensive.
I think since the pandemic -when they began to artificially raise prices- things have at least gone up by 50%.
And it's still going up.

Suppliers who have to have truck deliver goods are about to go bust as they cannot afford to fill up the tanks of the trucks anymore.
Which means prices of goods will go up even more.

Meat... they're busy destroying all cattle farmers here with the policy to lower nitrogen.
To still have meat they're not working on making artificial meat?!
Not the vegan crap, but artificially grown/produced meat. WTF is that all about?
So if you don't have that over there in the US & CA you may consider yourself lucky.

MOTOWN Taking the bus as you say, yes an option. BUT bus fare will also go up since everything is so much more expensive! So you're duped nonetheless.

It all makes you wonder what the hell they're trying to achieve with all this idiocy??

Things I'm talking bout is in The Netherlands.
We have no Trump here, we do here an idiot who's possibly even worse.
But then, global tendencies effect everyone worldwide.

I Live in Queens County New York City.
Food and Gasoline Prices are a Tiny Bit High > But Stable.
What is High is Small Home Owner's Real Estate Taxes, and the Home Owner's Insurance to Protect Your House.
Thanks to the New York City Politicians of a Certain Party.

But I Enjoy a Nice Middle Class Lifestyle.

Globally, all politicians are out for themselves. Empty bellies vote politicians in, empty bellies vote politicians out.

Democracy is a system of government where politicians give the population a choice of dictators to vote on to rule the country. Remove the current dictator, the next one will carry on the dirty work blaming the previous dictator.

Alternative 3 is a 1977 British television mockumentary concerning government conspiracies.

Alternative 3, the book is available as a free download. Download and read the book. It's an eye opener to what is really going on Planet Earth. Make an informed judgement whether the documentary and book contents are real or a global cover-up.

Where you live Morton, California will always have the highest gas prices, the highest gas tax and the highest income tax across the country regardless.

And, the 70% increase in gasoline/petrol prices is due to the fact that California imports all its oil from overseas. Not from tariffs. The closure of the Hormuz Strait by Iran a few months ago led to a global increase in prices. Apparently, every nation around the world knows that except the US Democrats?

But don't take my word for it.....

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/california-hit-by-much-higher-oil-prices-iran-war-stresses-refiners-2026-03-13/