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Originally Posted by dyna mo
canada hardly has the upper hand here. they are either going to have to lower their dairy tariffs or accept a car tariff on exports by Friday.
I don't care for trump's bully tactics but it's laughable to think they have the upper hand. that doesn't even take into consideration the massively weak position in the negotiations they already have due to differences in GDP between countries.
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And perhaps we can end the subsidies on dairy and all the other farm products and save the taxpayer some money.
Yes this country subsidizes it's exports as much as China.
That's what creates these 'unfair' disputes.
Our farm products are heavily subsidized.
If you would take the subsidy away from corn to make methanol, the sugar cane and beat farmers (who can make methanol from their products more efficiently) could make a profit and you could end the tariff we have on imported sugar.
But be aware that subsidies and tariffs are a 2 way street and we are not innocent.
While subsidies help those export numbers, they keep your taxes high and food costs higher in the end. Nearly every processed food has 'corn byproducts' or sweetened with 'corn syrup'. And you don't get many jobs from the mechanized corporate farm. And the ones you do get are normally filed by Mexicans working as a private contractor who pays little to no federal taxes.