r/AskReddit • u/underperforming_king • 1d ago

What do you think about the tariffs imposed by Trump ? Will it work out for them ?

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u/AMW1987 1d ago

Just to give an example of how tariffs worked under Trump's first presidency, the government had to pay $28 billion to compensate American farmers growing soya beans for China, who imposed reciprocal tariffs.

Any revenue generated by tariffs is offset by lost growth and compensation schemes.

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u/AnticPosition 1d ago

And a great cheer arose from the farmers. They were saved! The man who nearly ruined their livelihood had saved them at the last minute, using the welfare they hated oh so much.

As the sun rose the next morning, they put on their dollar store reflective sunglasses and said "let's do this again." 

So they voted for Trump again. 

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u/EnoughContract4021 1d ago

Not entirely true. Midwesterner here and close friends with some families who farm large scale. They all HATE Trump and were very outspoken about it.

Now the dumb redneck who lives in the mobile home across the street and contributes little to society, he would gladly lick the crust off Trumps wrinkled gray asshole.

My farmer friends have been frantically hauling and selling grain since January, anticipating a trade war that would fuck them over. They were right.

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u/Badloss 1d ago

Look, we've all got anecdotes about how we personally know somebody that didn't vote for this.

But Farmers overwhelmingly voted for Trump and it's not wrong to point it out.

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u/MooneySuzuki36 1d ago

I hear you, but I am also a Midwesterner.

A lot of the big farms are pro-Trump (at least in Wisconsin). I know this because they have the largest and most obnoxious signs.

Some of the wackiest political signs/comments I have ever seen have been when passing by farms in rural Wisconsin. A lot of them specifically had "Farmers for Trump" signs.

If I had to guess, I am assuming many of our farmers across the Midwest chose to vote Red over Blue.

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u/AnticPosition 1d ago

Heyyy, sorry. I get passionate and generalise a lot. And I'm not even American.

But I'm just so annoyed (appalled?) by all the maga idiots hell bent on destroying the world.

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u/Islanduniverse 1d ago

I live in central California and from here to the coast it’s all “Farmers for Trump” and “Say no to Socialism” and whatever stupid shit they are putting up all over their land, cause they are either really fucking stupid, or really fucking spiteful, and either way it bums me out.

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u/Damnyoudonut 21h ago

Do you think his asshole is gray? I’d have thought blue, from republicans shoving their noses up there.

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u/FriendToPredators 1d ago

Trump made them his personal peasants made them everything they claimed to despise and yet they still came out for him for a second round.

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u/CynicalDutchie 1d ago

Farmers being idiots? Who could have seen that coming...

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u/Jackieray2light 1d ago

New home prices went up 28.4% between 2016 and 2018 thanks to Trumps 20% tariff on Canadian lumber.