Here are two of the sneaky ways I have noticed food companies charging a lore more for their products without raising their prices too much.

I buy cabbage at Sam's Club. Three large heads came in a pack. Not only has the price increased slightly, but the heads of cabbage are much smaller, probably around 30% smaller, AND the package only comes with 2 heads of cabbage instead of 3. They even use the exact same packaging as before that clearly states it's a package of THREE heads of cabbage.

My nacho lunchables, one of the best inventions of mankind, practically give you no cheese to dip your chips with anymore! Oh sure you get cheese, but it's probably about 20% of what you used to get. But of course they also raised their prices.

And keep in mind when the US calculates inflation they just go by direct dollar numbers, they don't compare the fact that, for instance my cabbage example, that we are getting less than half the food we were before.

There are other much more sneaky ways companies do this shit that 99% of people would never even notice.

For example that 18 ounce box of cereal you like might only be 17.9 ounces in a couple of months, then 17.8 ounces a couple of months after that. A change so small you wouldn't really even notice it unless you look at the tiny text along the box which states how much the cereal weighs and you remembered how much cereal was in there last time.

The crazy part is the US has PLENTY of energy! We have so much energy in this country we could easily meet all of our needs and start selling our excess energy to Europe. But instead Democrats are demonizing our energy production and shackling them with more costly regulations instead of easing up on regulations and maybe even giving them a tax break on the condition they pump out more energy.

Let the peasants eat cake!