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So taxpayers need to pay more for the product itself AND taxes to subsidize the farmers who are impacted by the tariffs?
I'm starting to think these tariffs weren't such a good idea!
Correct, if they get a bailout, it will come from tariff money. This could mean almost all the money made on this will just go back to them anyway, which makes you ask the question... whyyyy.
It's not like this is even hypothetical. It literally happened during his last term! 92% was returned to the farmers during that bailout.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/92-percent-trumps-china-tariff-proceeds-has-gone-bail-out-angry-farmers
This is FAKE NEWS because FARMERS Hate Socialism and would NEVER Ask for a SOCIALIST HANDOUT!
help out the “welfare queen” farmers,
Which almost all went to corpo farms and shit like Nunes' single cow farm.
Thats where most of the $10,000,000,000 from last month went too
I can see how some tariffs might help us compete with Mexico but are we really getting targeted by every other country or are we on the wrong side of this?
Waw, just... I can't even...
Compete with Mexico? What are you a tomato or Avocado grower. I was fine with selling my Wheat to Mexico. I don't see why orange moron should steal from my business to line his and Tim Apple's pockets.
Bailout money, even if approved, might not get to farmers in time before they go bankrupt due to induced government inefficiency. That's icing on the shit cake that the Trump administration has baked.
It's part of the plan to buy up farms and land for cheap when farmers go bankrupt
I don't think it is part of the plan, just that Trump and Musk don't care.
Its certainly not their direct intention, but Trump just follows along with what his billionaire donors and advisors say, which is to destroy the economy and scoop up failing businesses at a cheap price to own more when the economy recovers. Its just how republicans operate. The tariffs are just an tool for destroying the economy and putting businesses under.
It does make you wonder if it at least a little bit by design. You don't need to pay bailouts if the person who would be receiving them is no longer able to do so, and you are still approving them outright.
Their whole fucking lives have been a bailout
my county has more than half a million people but only 250k live in the big city, many of the voters are rural farmers
they dominate the federal races because they are reliable and loud. they also always vote Republican
It's a sad thing but they need this pain in a big way. Their cash cow is out of Congress and her replacement has only one bill in his name... stupid fucking idiot wants to dissolve the NCAA and make it federal.
LOL
fuck you
Time for some signs dude.
GOVERNMENT BAILOUTS ARE SOCIALISM!!!!!
I assume they think he will again
not this year, maybe early next.. just in time to buy their votes at midterms.
Let's just print out a trillion food stamps for these welfare queens.
But you can't buy MAGA hats and gold Trump coins with food stamps!
Those you only get by giving blowies
Famers love welfare when its for them.
thousand acre welfare queens
They can sell their farm.
That's probably one of the goals. Small farms sell to either corporate farm companies, or billionaires.
TO WHO? ~~Aqua~~ Dustman????
I honestly don't think they will get help this time. JD Vance is invested in AcreTrader and what's a better way to buy thousand's of acres for pennies on the dollar than to bankrupt farmers? And at the end of the day, I really don't think they deserve a bailout.
It's all fuckin pointless. This is so good damn stupid.
if they dint learn from teh soybean tariffs, they wont learn anything here.
That didn't take long...
No bailouts. No "too big to fail". It's time for consequences to fall where they may.
It's time for Find Out, not Bail Out.
Zero dollars for these people.
1930 tariffs made dust bowl worse, because there was less planting from less exports.
Watch them get it and then praise Trump and MAGA again.
Well that was fast.
Did you say, "buyout"?
I hope not, because you won't be getting one of those either.
Sure you're broke, tariffs are wrecking the global economy, climate change is going to kill at least 5 billion people, etc, etc, but it is is all worth it because that one trans kid in Pennsylorida can't play badminton and will probably commit suicide and you can proudly wear your kkk gear in public again.
Maybe doge will do something funny like cut existing farm subsidies.
Biden was putting in programs to help them but they instead chose to vote for Trump who is bankrupting them so that his rich friends can buy up their properties for pennies on the dollar, if that.
They should consider planting bootstraps so they can pull up lots of them during the harvest.
So these dumb ducks voted for the exact thing that hurt them the last time...
Lazy ass farmers just want bailouts. Fuck em.
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