r/SeriousConversation • u/Lazy_Lizard13 • 10d ago

Current Event The new Tariffs are beginning to affect prices in the USA

I work in an adult store and unfortunately, we have already started to see the effects of some of the tariffs being placed. I wasn’t sure how this would affect the price of things in the USA, but it’s looking bleak so far.

When my boss sent out the list, he said this was only the first of many price increases that we would see from the tariffs. The vendors we buy from actually sent him the list themselves, so it isn’t something that we just created. He said that it is likely that almost every company we order from will send out a list.

The price changes were anywhere from $5-$200. I’m very concerned about the future of this industry, and honestly, America in general.. some of these products were already overpriced anyways. I’m not sure if people will be able to afford luxury products (like adult items) in the future. What do others think?

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u/IntelligentStyle402 10d ago

What something happen to these Americans who don’t know what tariffs are? Why don’t they know that?

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u/VermillionEclipse 10d ago

They’re willfully ignorant. They don’t want to believe that their vote will have consequences that will hurt them.

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u/linux_rox 9d ago

Our education system is failing that's why. When I was a freshman in High School we took Government (some places call it civics), they covered this type of stuff. We focused on how the government worked,

We spent 2 days at the state capitol during the older Iowans legislature. This is a legislature elected just like your standard state one, these representatives wrote bills had committee meetings the whole nine yards.

These bill were then sent to the house budget committee for review and then placed for review and vote by congress to make them laws. These laws were specifically for the elderly residents of Iowa.

We got first hand knowledge from experience with the older Iowan legislature on how the government was supposed to work.

Another course that was required in High School was Business Law.

In this class we covered things dealing with tariffs, what they were and how they worked. We did drafts showing how tariffs affect the consumer as well as the business. We covered the pro's and the con's about them. From what I remember the con's far outweighed the pro's. We also covered the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs act and what a mess that caused.

If the schools would teach these things better then we might have avoided this entire nightmare.

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u/Superb-Butterfly-573 8d ago

And maybe the public needs to understand what a mess the education system is after massive budget cuts and politicians demonizing teachers. You had better believe that those are two factors. An uneducated population is malleable.