Trump Aids Farmers

[sumdumguy]

Except it doesn't - these policies were largely abandoned in the 1980s once they realised it had a terrible negative effect on the 3rd world countries own agriculture sectors. All the previous efforts to educate and help growers in these countries to become self sufficient are sabotaged when you dump a lot of free food in their country. Put all the farmers there out of business overnight then the whole country is sitting waiting on all their food being donated from overseas.
Where are all your cries of "socialism" now? Subsidizing farmers to produce and then making entire countries dependant on welfare handouts in the process - I guess it's all different if Don the Con does it.

When people are starving? So what, we give them millions that end up in some despots pocket? You socialists are so damn smart, you have a stupid come back for every idea except shovelling money at other nations.

[grassfarmer]

I'm not the socialist - its your supposed capitalist friends proposing the socialist solutions here. Welfare for Canadian farmers so they can continue in the lifestyle they've become accustomed to and welfare for the 3rd world so they don't have to grow food to feed their own countries.

[bucket]

I'm not the socialist - its your supposed capitalist friends proposing the socialist solutions here. Welfare for Canadian farmers so they can continue in the lifestyle they've become accustomed to and welfare for the 3rd world so they don't have to grow food to feed their own countries.

That's the same argument that can and should be use for the steel, auto, dairy, and conservation industries. ...except they are not allowed to fail because too many people want the lifestyle of 500k homes provide when government subsidizes them. ...

[Braveheart]

Not socialism if the chinese are paying for it.

tarrifs are just the exact same thing as carbon tax. Change behavior, look for cheaper alternatives. Eventually it will be too expensive to import chinese washing machines and someone will make them here again.

But, right now the importer is paying the tariffs. The tariff cost is then passed on to US consumers.

Chinese don't care. US consumers will fund US farmers shortfall. Trump will call farmers patriots.

[Oliver88]

Will Canada be forced to match the upcoming MFP 2.0 south of the border?