25 percent tariff on all imported goods from China will add 1 million jobs to USA

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Complain all you want but we’re in a war of sorts and when it comes to the food we eat I’ve got no problem throwing some aid at farmers who are suffering because of it. I doubt many of you who complain about the issue have ever spent much time around a farmer. I can say there won’t be a large number of jobs created by any aid. Their running in razor thin margins as it is.

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federal investment from tariff revenue

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Take that money China’s paying is and let’s fix the place up a little in their dime. Who cares. It’s an opportunity to improve areas of employment.

I'm more of the mind, when it comes to farmers, that we need to bolster and boost small niche farms rather than enriching these massive farms that rent acreage for ridiculous amounts of money and take massive agricultural tax breaks in the process.

Now before anyone starts busting my balls in defense of farmers understand something.... I'm sitting in my farmhouse right now, with six big chicken houses and 80 acres of hayfield and sixty something head of cattle on the back forty that'll be butchered for the organic market here shortly.

I enjoy my ag tax break on my property, but I own the property I don't lease it at $2k per acre per year and then try to make it work under the thumb of some big land owner trust fund baby who's Grandpappy used to own the land but the grandkids just want the money basically being guaranteed by Uncle Sugar and somebody planting seeds for Monsanto.

We need more small niche organic farms of 500 acres or less growing heirloom seeds and steroid free beef and chicken.

There's more to it than that but anyways, that's just my two cents about farming and farms and how uncle sugar intercedes at every opportunity.

Oh, and frick China.

Also, if anyone really wants to learn and know the whole story about farm policies in this country and why it had better get fixed soon .... let me know and I'll share three great book titles with you that will open your eyes to a monster we've created second in abuse only to The Fed.

Our department of agriculture is completely out of control and under the thumb of big corporate America.

Well that’s an utterly ridiculous reply.

A) I’m not complaining about the trade war; I’m complaining about Breitbart and CPA’s flimsy relationship with honesty. I’m well aware that China is our biggest geopolitical foe and I have no problem confronting them (though I do believe that there are larger issues that need confronting than just the economic ones)

B) I’ve spent plenty of time around farmers. That’s dumb.

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I can say there won’t be a large number of jobs created by any aid.

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That claim runs in diametric opposition to the paper you are defending

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Take that money China’s paying is and let’s fix the place up a little in their dime. Who cares. It’s an opportunity to improve areas of employment

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If you want to make that argument, fine. Just don’t delude yourself into believing that it’s the tariff creating the new jobs rather than yet another expansion of big government

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CPA is known for using exceedingly shoddy economic methodology.

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CPA believes that free trade doesn't work and that America’s trade deficit is its single biggest economic problem.

Pure stupidity

You ever read this:

Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan (Classic Reprint)

This book was first published in the 30's; I believe the author was from the Oklahoma State Ag Department, and it most likely had something to do with the Roosevelt Administrations policies to deal with the Depression.

(Actually some of that stuff was really valuable even if it seemed like make-work at the time. Just taking a bunch of pictures of old people and recording what they had to say... we'd be poorer now if that never happened.

Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell)

But about that book... it's fascinating. You probably aren't going to learn anything that would be helpful with modern farming practices.

But the East Asian small farmer, particularly the Chinese ones, had to be the most efficient farming machines from an economic and energy-use standpoint that have ever lived.

Makes me sad that this is the kind of book that used to come out of Academia compared to what we have now.

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25 percent tariff on all imported goods from China will add 1 million jobs to USA
I'm more of the mind, when it comes to farmers, that we need to bolster and boost small niche farms rather than enriching these massive farms that rent acreage for ridiculous amounts of money and take massive agricultural tax breaks in the process.

Now before anyone starts busting my balls in defense of farmers understand something.... I'm sitting in my farmhouse right now, with six big chicken houses and 80 acres of hayfield and sixty something head of cattle on the back forty that'll be butchered for the organic market here shortly.

I enjoy my ag tax break on my property, but I own the property I don't lease it at $2k per acre per year and then try to make it work under the thumb of some big land owner trust fund baby who's Grandpappy used to own the land but the grandkids just want the money basically being guaranteed by Uncle Sugar and somebody planting seeds for Monsanto.

We need more small niche organic farms of 500 acres or less growing heirloom seeds and steroid free beef and chicken.

There's more to it than that but anyways, that's just my two cents about farming and farms and how uncle sugar intercedes at every opportunity.

Oh, and frick China.

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Absolutely right.



Monsanto and its seed police need to be

Lets tax then spend