• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You mean make the US taxpayers pay them instead? Get one of his buddies he had fleece the stock market to the tune of hundreds of billions pay for it. Fuck these guys. I’m not paying federal tax these next four years.

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      6 months ago

      Don’t worry 90% of it will go to Cargill, ADM, Tyson, Smithfield, John Deere, and Bayer/Monsanto.

      All the remaining small farms will fight over the scraps and then get bought out by one of the first four, depending on what they farm…or be entirely under the thumb of the other two.

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    6 months ago

    It’s okay guys, Trump has gained 17 TRILLION from tariffs. Biden? 1 Trillion, Trump, 17 trillion in 8 months! Imagine that!

    /dripping with orange sarcasm

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    6 months ago

    We paid out 20 billion dollars to Argentina, fucked over a bunch of American soy bean farmers in MAGA country and so he’s paying them another 10 billion to not turn on him. Cool.

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      6 months ago

      Framers are millionaires. Their farmland the equipment needed to run it is hugely expensive. They voted for bailouts and tax breaks the first time, and that’s what they voted for this time. When they weren’t getting what they voted for they threatened to turn on him until he gave in. They won’t learn anything from this except that they get tax breaks and bailouts from Trump.

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    6 months ago

    Bail them out now, and then what? Their international customers aren’t coming back if they already found comparable trade partners elsewhere, and the non-billionaires here are tapped out from high food prices. Won’t they just need another bailout sooner than later?

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      It’s actually quite simple. Bail them out now, wait for the midterms. Let the farmers go bankrupt next year so mega corporations buy up their foreclosed fam land. Then the mega corporations and billionaires get to privatize the profits and socialize the loses. There’s no better investment than that.

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        6 months ago

        Yep. They get to “own the libs”, but the megacorporations will get to own their farms. Cons are not really great at thinking shit through. Being the emotionally flighty people that they are, but ironically, calling everyone to their left a “snowflake”, they are easily manipulated…