procter & gamble and pepsi. two weeks ago they announced, they said across the board on the portfolio, they re going to raise prices because they can t keep up. the inflation issue is a real issue. the fact that nobody wants to talk about it, everybody says it s transitory, it s not transitory. it s sticky. sticky in the places that will hurt middle america and low income america the worst. jeff bezos doesn t care if his steak goes from $10 to $15. give him a tax credit? charles, who else will feel it? i m going to say it s at the dollar stores. i wrote about it in the washington post this week. the dollar tree raising price as above a dollar because inflation is an example of why federal spending is filling houses with so much money and driving demand and disrupting the supply chain. the dollar stores have gone to $1.50. no doubt about that. another issue to squeeze in.
for the average working family. that is money that will go into the pockets to help with the expenses to save for a house, to invest in child college accounts. not to mentioned the child care, which i don t hear i work with child care workers here in california and i don t hear what patrice is talking about. i hear they re glad they re going to see families be able to afford care for their children. these are middle income families that will receive help for those kids under 5, for the kids up to 13 years old. that is huge. it s going to be transformative for women, for working families and going to help middle america out. when you poll it, americans agree. what is interests, kenny, this polled bet area few months ago. cnn had a poll where 25% of folks said it would be beneficial. 30% thought it would harm their family. friday we had a consumer sentiment where 19% of the people surveyed trust this government spending plan on the drawing boards. people are getting anxious about
we re trying to get to a real close as quickly as possible. charles: through yo have it. the head of the progressive caucus talking about president biden and sounds like they re getting closer to that 1. 9, 2.2 trillion. at that level, it s an enormous amount of money but still enormous things. we heard about the investing in transformational areas in our country. i want to bring back john bussey. we were talking about inflation. certainly these kind of bills, these sort of trillion dollar bills have played a role. we don t know what the time bill will look like. sounds like it s around $2 trillion. one part will be spending another part taxes. then there s another part. the transformational part. the idea of changing america. at the journal, you cover all the areas. what do you think it s going to look like when it s finally done? you re probably going to see some of the programs for
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you know, charles, here s what i wonder. we stopped talking about tax credits and started talking about inflation. now a drag net to inspire fear in americans. they re not coming after you. they re trying to catch people that are moving money around $10,000? $600? $600? laura if i may finish. i m going to finish. $10,000. yes. how often are you moving $10,000 back and forth? not very often. aim small business owner. i don t move that money. if i did, i wouldn t mind. i know where it s going. people need to pay their fair share. the tax cheats need to get caught. the bottom line is, we re tired of tax cheats in america. that s true of left, right and center. here s the thing. they re talking about an army. 80 billion army of irs agents. there s only so many wealthy folks you can go after.