r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 14h ago
It turns out you cannot eat pure political rhetoric when the trade war bill comes due.
Nothing screams rugged, independent free-market capitalism quite like begging the government for a multibillion-dollar bailout because your own preferred trade policies vaporized your customer base.
You voted to burn down the global grain market and are now stunned to discover you actually have to live inside the ashes.
Broad tariff regimes inevitably trigger direct retaliatory duties on domestic agricultural exports, converting thriving family operations into federally dependent welfare cases overnight. Handing out billions in taxpayer-funded stopgap relief does not recover structural export market share; it simply forces the public to subsidize avoidable self-inflicted losses while multi-generational farms fold under the debt.
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u/Substantially-Ranged 14h ago
What we have right now is the result of people that don't understand complex economic systems voting to preserve social structures that benefit them at the cost of others living with the consequences of their poorly thought out choices. In short "I just didn't want gay people around my kids, Mexican people getting food stamps, and I liked the way he pissed off the libs. I didn't know he was going to bee so incompetent at running the country. It's almost like the things I liked about him were of no value. I feel betrayed by my own stupidity."