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Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich. (newrepublic.com)

submitted 1 month ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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Grew up and are friends with farmers. Can confirm that most of them are at least upper, upper middle class.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Given that I'm in a maker state (not a taker state) and I don't get any tax credits (not married, no kids, not deducting mortgage interest, etc.) — I mean, it is my money. And great, we exported all our union manufacturing jobs to an authoritarian sweat shop.

Well, stop doing me favors. I don't want to subsidize soybeans for export to other countries to prop up authoritarian regimes.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Ok but taking China out of the equation here, I think their point is that it's part of the international trade system, which does benefit you. The US can't make everything, so being able to trade with other countries is a good thing. The tariffs putting a squeeze on that is an example of how interconnected and dependant we are on it.