Last week, @TheDemocrats posted a chart of grocery prices with the caption: “Trump’s America.”
The chart showed food prices climbing to record highs in 2025, and the message was clear:
“See? Your painful grocery bill is Trump’s fault.”
Republicans immediately pounced, pointing out that, actually, the steepest spike happened under Biden.
Within hours, the Democrats had deleted the tweet.
Cue the laughter, eye-rolls, and another round of “own the other side” victory laps.
But here’s the thing: if you put aside the partisan drama for just a second… The Democrats weren’t entirely wrong.
The chart tells a story that a lot of Americans (on both “sides”) don’t want to hear: the grocery price spike actually did start in 2020, during Trump’s presidency. And it didn’t happen because food magically got more expensive overnight. It happened because our government—both parties—chose to “solve” a crisis by spending money it didn’t have.
When COVID hit, the government shut down large parts of the economy and then tried to paper over the damage with trillions of dollars in stimulus.
So-called “relief bills” stacked up to over $3.6 trillion under Trump, and the Federal Reserve made the spending possible by expanding the money supply by nearly 25% in a single year.
Biden came in and poured on another $1.9 trillion in 2021, and by then the stage was set.
To put it in perspective, around 80% of all money currently in circulation was created out of thin air over a span of less than two years (from 2020-2021).
Of course you can’t create wealth out of thin air; you can only create dollars. And when more dollars are chasing the same amount of milk, eggs, cheese, and meat, the prices go up.
And that’s what we’re living with today.
Simply put, your grocery bill today is a receipt for yesterday’s politics.
Economists like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek spent their lives warning about this. In Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, he explained that government “solutions” and central planning almost always lead to painful, unintended consequences.
The last five years have been a master class in that lesson.
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Several years ago, we wrote a kids version of Hayek’s Serfdom. The Tuttle Twins and the Road to Surfdom teaches kids—and their parents—to see the connection between government “help,” and the harm it always ends up causing in the long run.
Both Republican and Democrat politicians refuse to acknowledge this, and many Americans are too team-minded to be willing to take an honest look at the part that “their” politicians have played in causing harm.
It’s very frustrating.
But here’s the good news: while we can’t undo the mistakes of the past, we can raise a generation that’s wise enough not to repeat them.
That’s what I’ve spent the last decade of my life trying to do.
And that’s why we’re running our Back to School Sale right now—so you can grab the entire Tuttle Twins collection, including Road to Surfdom, for up to 70% off.
I believe that if we teach our kids to understand the world around them today, they can shape a freer, more prosperous world tomorrow. And maybe someday, they’ll see a chart like this and know exactly what went wrong—and maybe they’ll keep it from ever happening again.
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— Connor
