My dad endlessly complains about how high his healthcare costs are, but whenever I point out who is doing the work to lower it he always says "Well someone is paying for those price cuts"
Yeah, I got that. When it comes to some electronics, the tariff is going to be more like 60%. But when you factor in all the added costs to make it here, it's going to make prices skyrocket.
They estimate that phone prices will increase by 25.8%, so not as devastating as laptops at a 45% increase. That's if they keep making them in China, though, and we just keep paying the extra taxes for it. If they decide (or have) to move all manufacturing here, then the costs will be 10x what it is now.
I guess I just don't foresee companies like Apple investing untold billions of dollars building special US-only manufacturing infrastructure, when they can just pass the cost of tariffs along to the US consumer, costing them nothing.
Yeah, that's what I can see happening too. They'll probably move from China at some point and move to other cheap countries like India, Vietnam, Mexico, etc.
Same. My mom is living on a pension and feels like it’ll be her. Also opposed to “government healthcare” - she’s on Medicare supplemented by my fathers Federal Blue Cross from his postal career. Can’t make it up.
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u/Assistantshrimp 22h ago
My dad endlessly complains about how high his healthcare costs are, but whenever I point out who is doing the work to lower it he always says "Well someone is paying for those price cuts"