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

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    24 days ago

    They aren’t your tax dollars, they’re our tax dollars. And seeing as those Chinese people you don’t like feeding are making everything else you consume, that’s how it fucking helps you.

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      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.

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        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.