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We need to think long term. Short term thinking has gotten us into a lot of trouble .
These issues didn’t happen over night and they won’t be fixed overnight .
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President Trump is confronting China over its predatory trade practices and outright theft of American property.
China has responded - not by pledging to change its cheating ways, but by imposing politically targeted taxes on American farm exports.
This has farmers rightly concerned they may - repeat, may - get less for their soybeans, sorghum or pork if China goes through with its threats.
strategic industries and technologies, it will control the world's economy - and the future of our nation.
As farmers, we must remember that if China gets to write the rules for global agricultural trade, it won't be a free market system. It will be a command economy, with price and production targets set by the commanders in the Forbidden City of Beijing.
This administration won't let China flout all the rules to muscle it way to the top of the world's economic order.
Beijing's communist rulers hope they can divide us, pitting American against American, country versus city. But when times are tough you won't find a more patriotic bunch than farmers.
Tariffs? Higher tariffs definitely mean lower "other taxes," since a tariff is a tax on imports or exports.
Same with Trump lowering the housing-rebate, it's technically an increase in tax revenue not to give tax money back to the People.
Long-term? That was Trump's plan? Hurt America's achieved Global Unity now so that it will not hurt in the future from Global Unity? O.K.
So...think long term....Know who can afford that? The really big farm companies. This may work out great for the wealthy folks who own them...not so much for the smaller farms.
So...think long term....Know who can afford that? The really big farm companies. This may work out great for the wealthy folks who own them...not so much for the smaller farms.
Agri-corporations will appeal for even more subsidies.
China will develop other sources for soybeans, etc. - Brazil, etc.
Long-term - that market won't be coming back.
Regardless of what happens with high-tech theft, that market is gone.
And appaarently no one is taking climate change into consideration
The area in the US where soybeans are grown (from what I understand) is basically losing all its ground water and suffering from drought over the last several years
It might be that within the next 4-10 yrs America's role as the great grain basket will halt
We need to think long term. Short term thinking has gotten us into a lot of trouble .
These issues didn’t happen over night and they won’t be fixed overnight .
—
President Trump is confronting China over its predatory trade practices and outright theft of American property.
China has responded - not by pledging to change its cheating ways, but by imposing politically targeted taxes on American farm exports.
This has farmers rightly concerned they may - repeat, may - get less for their soybeans, sorghum or pork if China goes through with its threats.
strategic industries and technologies, it will control the world's economy - and the future of our nation.
As farmers, we must remember that if China gets to write the rules for global agricultural trade, it won't be a free market system. It will be a command economy, with price and production targets set by the commanders in the Forbidden City of Beijing.
This administration won't let China flout all the rules to muscle it way to the top of the world's economic order.
Beijing's communist rulers hope they can divide us, pitting American against American, country versus city. But when times are tough you won't find a more patriotic bunch than farmers.
Keeping it real.....one co-author is Curtis Ellis a senior policy advisor with America First Policies, a pro-Trump group.
He has to spin it on the Trump side.
Tell me it isn't so.
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