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In reply to the discussion: So, Before The Farmers Get Their Trump Bailout [View all]Warpy
(113,976 posts)20. This is buying their votes
pure and simple, so that red states will continue to vote for their Republican Congressmen to keep that gravy train running. Hey, free money! Next year we won't have to plant anything, we can pile into the RV like we always wanted to do and see America (except for the cities, they're scary).
OK, this is an unfair exaggeration, but they will plant less and stay home to care for any livestock. They'll take it easy after this year's bumper crop is either fed to animals or left to rot since Bumhole destroyed USAID, one of their overflow markets that kept the price right.
I just hope there isn't a big backlash as these stupid tariffs hurt us all while farmers are collecting their loot.
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Anecdotal. US farm families mostly voted for trump, look at a map and you will clearly see a trump swath
Blues Heron
Friday
#5
This is not your father's farm. Few of those exist any more. Most farmers receiving bailouts are millionaires
Bernardo de La Paz
Friday
#17
When I wrote "few exist" that means that "some might exist". You confirm that I was right.
Bernardo de La Paz
Friday
#35
Indeed. Why should they get a handout? They all knew these tariffs were going to destroy
travelingthrulife
Friday
#10
I did have sympathy the first time around to see that the soybean market they'd worked so hard to develop in China just
Walleye
Friday
#15
What would really help the farmers out is another tax cut for billionaires and corporations.
Ray Bruns
Friday
#13
Let's not lump the corporations into the group of who to blame for the plight of the farmers.
llmart
Friday
#22
The "fiscal conservative" republicans raised the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION just for fraud, waste and abuse
Mysterian
Friday
#29
There Are Those That Voted For Trump And Those That Didn't Nonethless We All Suffer As A Result... Relevant:
MayReasonRule
Friday
#42