South Carolina Republican: High prices are ‘for the good of the country’

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5445060-ralph-norman-trump-tariffs-prices/?tbref=hp

32 comments

  1. Oh man I sure hope republicans don’t run on this platform in 2026 and 2028

    Dems would lose so hard and be so owned

  2. Please note that these high prices are republican-imposed. The tariffs are import taxes that are being illegally levied by a president that doesn’t have the authority to impose them.

  3. Good is bad. Up is down. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.

  4. Im gunna go out on a limb here and guess he’s wealthy and has never struggled to pay bills

  5. Just wait until the vast majority of the GOP base is unemployed when the agg/farm industry collapses due to other countries turning away from the US. I’m sure they’ll love paying higher prices for the good of the country.

    All of this reaffirms my belief the party has no desire a) have free and fair elections in 26 or b) honor the results of an election or c) the 26 election has already been done and they retain power indefinitely. A party saying this on the heels of winning power after the cost of things went up marginally obviously has a plan for their power grab.

  6. >Norman, who is running to become South Carolina’s next governor, told host Jon Scott that “Should we expect high prices for a short time? Yes.”

    Next question, define short time for us.

  8. >”Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) acknowledged that the public is seeing higher prices as a result of tariffs imposed by President Trump…”

    Uh-oh, Ralph.

    Your boss and savior isn’t gonna appreciate you telling the truth like that…

  9. Only the rich think he is doing the right thing.

    It is because we all pay another few thousand in costs of good annually, but it is so THEY get to pay millions less in taxes every year.

    All they did was shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor…and they are trying to blame other countries for it. When the entire reason we make all our goods in other countries in the first place is because the rich wanted to save money on labor costs…so they put their manufacturing where countries allow slave wages.

  10. I came to eat cake and the rich and I can’t afford cake.

  11. Says the fuck that doesn’t have to worry about high prices … live 1 year as the avg American lives scraping by and let’s see what you think then asshole

  12. I love how tariffs are both long term to bring manufacturing home and short term to negotiate better trade deals. Whichever one you want to use in debates on a given day

  20. then let the rich absorb them instead of trickling it down to the poor and then punishing them further with no medical care, k?

  21. Bold strategy cotton leta see how that works out for ya.

  22. From the wiki about the person in question:

    As of 2019, with a net worth of $18.3 million, Norman is the 28th wealthiest member of Congress. Govtrack.us ranked Norman as the most conservative member of the 117th Congress as of February 2023.

    He advocated for the implementation of martial law to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden in January 2021.

  23. Thank you, master, for the high prices. I know they are good for country and therefore good for me.

  25. Would higher wages then also be good for the country?

  26. It’s always these rich old white folks trying to convince everyone else that we need to suffer for the good of the country, meanwhile they’re just profiting off our backs.

  27. What a crock of shit. Next starvation is a good thing for our country. Republican losers

  28. …….They campaigned on lowering prices. You can’t make this stuff up

  29. Why then, aren’t we taxing billionaires for “the good of the country”?

  30. Kamala high prices – Trump low prices (lol)

    … can’t believe these dumbasses fell for that

  31. Getting rid of the Guardians Of Pedos is great for the country.

  32. Theyre going to eliminate the middle class and establish only the wealthy and the poor. Now the problem is…the number of poor folks are going to vastly outnumber the wealthy. Hasn’t this already happened multiple times throughout history?

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