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Farmers face steep losses in the middle of Trump's trade war and funding cuts (nbcnews.com)
19 points by rntn 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Farmers voted in droves for tariffs. What did they think they were voting for if not trade wars? What else are they not teaching in rural schools?


Right?

It’s really hard to muster up any sympathy for people falling victim to the exact thing they were promised by the person they overwhelmingly voted for and which they ignored because they were entirely driven by animus for “the other team”.

But I don’t like that it will probably result in even more small farms being sold out to the bigger corporate groups. It seems not ideal to basically centralize (or create circumstances to centralize) all of the country’s farm production.


Almost all destabilization (motion, to be clear) in the economy results in the large getting larger and the smaller disappearing.





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