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watoos

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8. Isn't this why China is taxing the grain?

Reply to Snotcicles (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 20, 2018, 08:13 AM

Apr 2018

The farmers are already being subsidized by our government, that's why China is imposing the tax, China is claiming unfair competition, claiming that Chinese farmers can't compete with the U.S. subsidized grain.

We do the same thing that we accuse other countries of doing. Trump's trade war will only cause prices to go up for all the little people.

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