Trump tapping $12B US to help farmers affected by tariffs

White_Unifier

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... and you guys complain about our supply-side controlled dairy industry ...

I still oppose supply-management, but I find entertainment in watching the US pot calling the Canadian kettle black.

If we were smart, we'd milk the US for all it's worth. We should be complain about US taxpayers subsidizing our food?

Alas, the Canadian government probably isn't smart enough to exploit this for the benefit of our consumers.
 

MHz

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How does that work anyway? Lower planting and harvesting costs as the money goes to the fertilizer companies and such or is the product bough and just dumped because there are no buyers for it.
 

Curious Cdn

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How does that work anyway? Lower planting and harvesting costs as the money goes to the fertilizer companies and such or is the product bough and just dumped because there are no buyers for it.

The continental Europeans invented this system many decade ago. The referred to it as "national socialism".
 

MHz

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Like the 6M dead in the Ukraine that died of starvation because the grain they grew was 'required' as a debt payment to the entity you mentioned. They also set the standard for what is done when an overthrow is in the works, lets hope the rules stay the same when they fall from the top.

Walnut, are you indicating you feel no sorry for the ones growing the grain were the ones that died while the ones in Kiev lived high on the hog and did no work at all??

You sometimes confuse me with those one finger replies you are so fond of. I keep expecting more from you for some odd reason. I'll work on correcting that flaw in my personality. There are so many of them it is hard to decide where to start some days.
 

MHz

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More GMO?
 

AncientMuse

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Just wait until these trade wars come to an end and Americans find out the farmer welfare bill they paid for grew from $12 billion to $212 billion....

Heads will explode and there'll be blood-curdling wails echoing throughout the land.

MAGA !
 

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Trump's trade war is economic suicide | Fox News

Fox news calls Trumps trade war economic suicide?

WTF is going on here?

It's just the Trumpette Cheerleaders™ showing their true colours now that they're having to open their wallets a wee bit wider than they're used to. The US is only into this trade war a few short months and they're already having to dole out the welfare cheques to farmers (other industries will have their hands out soon enough too).

Hospital emergency wards in the US are going to be lined up out the doors with increased cases of myocardial infarctions.

Hope everyone is paid up-to-date on their $1000 monthly medical insurance bill.

 

Tecumsehsbones

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And this is on top of the $25 billion or so in farm subsidies we paid last year.

But it's OK, Real Americans and Old Stock Canadians. You'll be happy to know that the number of small farmers has been dropping for decades, so more than half of this money goes to farms with over $1 million in gross cash farm income.

So it's not real welfare, cuz it's mostly for rich people and corporations.
 

Walter

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The left is always happy when the gubmint subsidizes private industry.
 

Hoid

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Why no subdsidy for all the other people Trump has put out of work?
 

Danbones

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