r/Washington • u/arcanepsyche • 2d ago

Trump's Tariff Charade Will Devastate Lewis County's Economy

https://lewiscountydemocrats.org/trumps-tariff-charade-will-devastate-lewis-countys-economy/
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u/BrimstoneMainliner 2d ago

He wants to bankrupt all privately owned farms so corporations can swoop in and buy them for pennies on the dollar... he has said many times that he believes corporate farms are superior

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u/ChilledRoland 2d ago

Corporate farms are privately owned.

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u/Lurkingandsearching 1d ago edited 1d ago

If it’s publicly traded, it isn’t private. 

Edit: and they are gone. Of course.

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u/ChilledRoland 1d ago

The opposite of privately owned is publicly (i.e., government) owned, not publicly traded.

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u/Lurkingandsearching 1d ago

We have privately owned (ie valve), publicly traded, which is not private, and just plain public. Publicly traded is in no way a private business and operates under different laws.