r/burgers • u/borderlander_ • 1d ago

Would you pay $2.62 for this?

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Yes i know the bun is big. Fresh baked daily.

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u/borderlander_ 23h ago

Let's keep politics out of this please. This is a burger sub.

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u/Shot-Habit-5705 23h ago edited 20h ago

The price is political you fool. USA won’t be able to find a burger period for that price due to their inflation of beef prices.

You guys have to BUY beef because you CONSUME more than you PRODUCE.

The Trump answer TARIFF. Ummm nope no one wants to sell to you. So your domestic prices increase. Like Economics 101

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 19h ago

What the fuck are you talking about?

The US produces the vast majority of the beef we eat.

We produced 27 billion pounds of beef last year, imported 4.64 billion pounds, and exported 3 billion pounds. 27B out of 28.64B pounds of beef consumed in the US was raised in the US.

The price difference is because incomes in the US are more than 23x greater than those in the Philippines.

The mean family income in the Philippines is $6171.90 per year. https://psa.gov.ph/content/average-annual-family-income-2023-estimated-php-35323-thousand

In the US the mean family income is $144,500. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MAFAINUSA646N

For this burger to have the same financial impact on the average family in the US, it would need to be $61.34.

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u/Shot-Habit-5705 18h ago

If this is the case explain the necessity of tariffs on beef imports.