“Maschhoff said the farm industry has been “asked to be good patriots. We have been. But I don’t want to be the patriot who dies at the end of the war.”
Laughable. This good Patriot has lobbied constantly the flood the country with Mexicans.
“The Good Patriots” who have received $billions in taxpayer-funded payoffs to plant what isn’t needed (low demand), or benefitted from subsidized by law products (corn for ethanol, as an example).
Most citizens have no idea just how deep the government is in farms - from the tax write-off of nearly all costs of production to the massive payoffs to farms (especially huge corporate farms) that is basically “free money”... The government has crushed small farmers by their payoffs and tax schemes - I get really tired of hearing the “poor farmer” mantra when most I know drive new vehicles all the time, live in NICE homes, all while crying how poor and broke they are - and how farming doesn’t make any money.
Get the government out and let the market do its thing.
As to tariffs - just do what those other nations do. If they don’t like it - they can lower their tariffs first.