Nikki Haley’s attempt to slam President Joe Biden on inflation overstated the burden of cookout costs when it added the percentage increases into one large total.
didate, roused passions on Twitter over July 4 weekend when she took a shot at inflation on President Joe Biden’s watch.
A tweet from Haley’s personal account said,"Remember last summer when Biden bragged about a $0.16 savings on your July 4th cookout? Well, this is what you’re spending on this 4th of July." The tweet referenced a graphic about Biden’s"inconvenience store" that was attributed to her political action committee, Stand for America. The graphic offered what it said was the one-year increase in price for six July 4 cookout staples.
The graphic said the price of hot dogs had increased by 15.6%, soda by 13.2%, condiments by 11.9%, ice cream by 9.6%, bread by 8.7% and watermelon by 8.2%.Inflation has increased the cost of the typical July 4 barbecue — but not by that much. As many Twitter followers quickly pointed out, basic mathematical principles say you can’t add six percentage increases together to yield a total percentage increase. In this case, you’d have to divide that total by six to find the overall increase. Assuming you were weighting the six items equally, that would be an average increase of 11.2%.Realizing its mistake, Haley’s staff deleted the tweet within an hour or so.
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