I have mixed feelings. I want our dairy farmers to be successful, but I really like buying milk for $1.19/gallon.
This tariff thing can get very granular and in support of a very small number of specific business enterprises.
Plenty of opportunity for graft and corruption and government employee headcount and budget.
Probably best for the General Welfare to sweep away all of the gov’t micro management.
Dairy farmers in the USA have been dropping like flies in the past year. Milk prices have been below production costs for over a year.
If you look at the Lancaster Farmer, cow prices are so low they are being butchered for meat. Herd dispersal auctions are frequent all over the country.
Milk prices had been as high as $22 to $25 per hundred weight two years ago. Recently they have been hovering in the $12 to $15 range.
THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN APRIL 2017
Fairy-face trudeau is not going to do away with the tariff. He doesn’t want to face the wrath of his dairy farmers.
So if Trump sets up a corresponding tariff on Canadian goods, he will be looking after our interests. But he will be trashed by the left for it, as he is being trashed on everything he does.
I visited Vancouver, BC about a year ago. We stopped in a grocery store to buy snacks and I couldn’t believe how expensive milk and chicken were. Milk was almost twice as expensive (in US dollars) and chicken was as expensive as beef and pork. Viva la Regulation.