S1E9: Ben Hepburn (7/7/26)

OK, but look, Ben, come on.

Inflation was going down.

He comes in and he imposes a bunch of tariffs.

Every economist says this is just going to drive up inflation.

What's happened to inflation? It's gone up.

In Williamsport, there's a great site.

The site is called WhatChanged.us.

So you can put in the zip code.

So I put in 17701.

The average tariff impact for people in 1777-01 is $1,082 a year.

Grocery prices have gone up 4% in the time since he's been president.

Housing costs up 6.3%.

Gasoline has gone up 25%.

So there are 4.26 a gallon in your region since January of 2025.

So these are the consequence of his policy choice, a policy choice that every economist looked at and said, this is idiotic.

It's just idiotic.

It's not going to achieve what you say it's going to achieve.

It's not going to be a boon to manufacturing, and it hasn't been a boon to manufacturing.

Instead, it's been a cost that consumers have to pay.

And that's what everybody said would happen.

And he said, no, the foreign governments would pay.

And what they did when they estimated the consequence was that they found the consumers paid 95% of the tariff cost.

what the economists had said they would pay.

So, you know, he bears responsibility for that.

The economy is screwed because of his policy choice.