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

submitted 9 months 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 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Farming is subsidized because of pork-barrel politics. They’re paid to grow corn that’s mostly thrown away. Sometimes they’re paid to not grow food.

And much of it is exported. How does feeding China help me? Why should “successful” businessmen get my tax dollars?

[+] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months 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 9 months 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.