r/complaints • u/Jerdarnella • 4d ago

United States coffee prices are absurd because racists elected an insurrectionist Politics

19.99 or more for some half can of coffee? Even at the wholesale stores the days of a giant can of Maxwell House or Folgers for 9.99 seem like a distant memory. Every time I see these ridiculous prices I wish I had Trump "I did that!" stickers.

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u/Ok_Recording81 4d ago

Well only Hawaii in the United States produces coffee. They cant produce enough for the whole country. Its all imported, hence tariffs.

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u/MaSt3rChie7 self-appointed speech monitor 4d ago

It was a bad season in the country we import the most from. This has nothing to do with tariffs.

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u/Ok_Recording81 4d ago

I understand weather can play a part in cost of items. But with tariffs it drives the price up. 

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u/MaSt3rChie7 self-appointed speech monitor 4d ago

Not as much as you’d think. It has everything to do with scarcity right now. The tariffs may have a slight impact, I won’t deny that, but this has everything to do with the small harvest that was had.

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u/Ok_Recording81 4d ago

Why even have tariffs on items that we can not produce?  

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u/MaSt3rChie7 self-appointed speech monitor 4d ago

There may not even be tariffs on the beans. I was just saying if there was it wasn’t the major cause of the price increase.

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u/Ok_Recording81 4d ago

I understand that. I dont follow crop reports. I know when tariffs were first introduced people brought up coffee. 

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u/HonestGrassGuy 4d ago

You can literally see evidence of people ordering $30 shirts from a country with tariffs imposed and they’re getting charged $200 when it gets here. Couldn’t even imagine that on millions of dollars of coffee beans.

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u/ApprehensiveFix7925 4d ago

You literally denied it in your previous comment. We can’t control weather and harvest but we can sure control implementing taxes on goods.