FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="668"] Biden Versus Trump on Inflation[/caption]

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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That '70s Show – Is Biden Taking America Back to the Age of Jimmy Carter?
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Everything that is happening in our fractured nation today seems so worrisomely reminiscent of America's last lost decade – the 1970s. For those who don't remember, the late 1970s under part-time President Gerald Ford and then much worse under President Jimmy Carter was one economic and national security setback after another.  The witches' brew of high inflation of 7% to 10% by 1979 and ever-increasing tax rates – which rose as high as 70% – drove the economy into a ditch. Real family incomes cratered under Carter because inflation rose so much faster than family…
 
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