On a Fox Business segment that aired Wednesday, contributor Scott Martin, the Chief Investment Officer of a wealth management company, went on a tirade about the pernicious influence of inflation on the American economy. The evidence? His Taco Bell lunch order from the day before—totaling $28.
To be sure, inflation is very real, and it’s seeing restaurants across the country raise their prices to save their bottom line. And fast food franchises are not immune to inflation’s wrath.
But Martin’s $28 lunch at Taco Bell doesn’t quite seem like a symptom of inflation. Even the show’s anchor, Nick Cavuto, was taken aback, attempting to clarify, “Wait a minute, you spent $28 at Taco Bell for just yourself?”
“It’s true,” Martin confirmed.
As the people of Twitter expressed their confusion, Martin took to the platform to share a screenshot of his now-famous order.
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Anyone’s free to spend their hard-earned money however they please, but at many locations of the value franchise known for cheap options, it’s actually difficult to tally up a one-person receipt that high, as many Twitter users observed. They laid out the sheer quantity of food at their local Taco Bell that it would take to reach that total. A $28 lunch, particularly at Taco Bell, is not inevitable, and it’s avoidable—even in this era of soaring prices.
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