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/ICanLiftACarUp 11h ago

they really don't see the play they're being conned into do they?

I remember one lady talking about selling her farm b/c she was losing money on it. Mentioned "selling it to JD" and didn't seem to connect those dots for even a moment.

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u/Somanylyingliars 2h ago

Didn't even realize that was their plan all along. Many of policies put into place during Dumps reign have been explicitly for his friends and donors to make money. Including the massive amounts of foreclosure we will soon see.