Hidden inflation

[Gramps]

Is it considered when inflation rates are calculated?

Mighty clever these merchants, or perhaps it is only the manufacturers BUT

how many items have recently underwent weight or volume reductions?

It happens all the time. Do you remember three and/or one pound cans of coffee? Did you know that when chewing gum was first retailed the sticks were larger than they are today? Have you taken time to even read the labels and has anyone taken time to calculate how much that figures into the customers expenses. AND THEN, adding insult to injury, some of them have the gaul to come out with (as in the case of coffee producers) the new large size (three pounders) they eroded away an ounce at a time.

Just curious.

Gramps

While we're on the topic of ripoffs, I always understood that to levy a tax upon a tax was illegal but it's done every day if you calculate what portion of the retail price is added tax and then one pays sales tax on the merchandise. Another curious oddity.

Gramps, again

 

[Lukey]

Now you are catching on to the "rip off" the Fed is pulling on the American people to prop up the Obama economy and make Wall Street bankers even MORE wealthy. Now go explain it to Degsme. And as for your example of "double" taxation? That's two different people paying taxes on the same transaction. That's not the same thing as the corporation owner paying a tax on his corporate profits and then another when he writes himself a check to withdraw some of those profits (THAT is a "curious oddity").

 

[fairsheet]

Oh bullshit. Partisans - of the outer party - have been spewing this "real inflation" angle for DECADES now. They've spewed it when GOPs were presidents and they've spewed it when Dems were presidents.

Truth be told...virtually EVERY consumer good we be buy, is at least on par if not considerably cheaper than it once was. Cars, clothes - anything electric/electronic, costs less. Petro and food are at least on par. The cost of housing has fallen over the last half-decade. We "feel" that the cost of healthcare has risen, but we ignore the extent to which the actual "unit" has expanded exponentialy.

The ONLY "product" that looks to've cost-inflated per unit, is education. And, it's not because the actual cost has inflated, it's because GOPs AND Dems have shunted so much more of the cost onto the individual consumer. This weenie-whining about "real inflation" being somehow hidden, is bullshit. The only "real inflation" - as it relates to education - has been upfront and a matter of OUR choice.