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Trump tariffs to hit small farms in MAGA heartlands hardest, analysis predicts (www.theguardian.com)

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Major corporations are best placed to benefit from Trump polices at the expense of independent farmers

The winners and losers of Trump’s first tariff war strongly suggest that bankruptcies and farm consolidation could surge during his second term, with major corporations best placed to benefit from his polices at the expense of independent farmers.

New analysis by the non-profit research advocacy group Food and Water Watch (FWW), shared exclusively with the Guardian, shows that Trump’s first-term tariffs were particularly devastating for farmers in the MAGA rural heartlands.

Farm bankruptcies surged by 24% from 2018 to 2019 – the highest number in almost a decade – as retaliatory tariffs cost US farmers a staggering $27bn.

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[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

people don't magically become Republicans or Democrats

they are grown in fields of underfunded schools, with ramped up pollution levels, filled with long work hours with stagnated pay below what food/housing/living costs, and over funded jackboots to keep the serfs in their proper places