As Trump Appeals to Farmers, Some of His Policies Don’t

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[/URL][QUOTE]WASHINGTON — President Trump will head to Tennessee on Monday to appeal to farmers, a key demographic that helped elect him, as he promotes his tax law and previews a new White House strategy to help rural America.

But back in Washington, some of the economic policies his administration is pursuing are at odds with what many in the farm industry say is needed, from a potentially drastic shift in trade policies that have long supported agriculture to some little-noticed tax increases in the $1.5 trillion tax law.

American farmers are facing some of the most challenging times in a generation. Global prices for their products — including corn, wheat and other commodities — are mired in a multiyear slump, and the rural economy has remained sluggish since the recession. Net farm income [URL="https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/farm-income-and-wealth-statistics/data-files-us-and-state-level-farm-income-and-wealth-statistics/"]has been roughly halved in the last four years[/URL], the largest four-year decrease since the Great Depression, the American Farm Bureau Federation says.

Many farmers and farm states supported the president, whose campaign made overtures to parts of America that had been left behind economically and felt overlooked in Washington. The farm community has cheered the president’s deregulatory agenda, especially [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/climate/epa-rescind-water-pollution-regulation.html"]a move to rescind tighter regulations on water pollution[/URL]. Mr. Trump’s appearance at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention in Nashville on Monday will mark the first time in 25 years a president has attended.[/QUOTE]
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Trump Overstates Size of Tax Cuts in Speech to Farmers

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NASHVILLE — President Trump delivered an economic victory lap during a speech to farmers on Monday in which he vastly overstated the size of the tax cuts passed by Congress late last year and played up a rollback of regulations on American businesses.

Declaring that the “American dream is roaring back to life,” Mr. Trump — who has [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/politics/trump-white-house-briefing-inauguration-crowd-size.html?_r=0"]made clear that he likes big numbers[/URL] — claimed that the tax overhaul cut taxes by $5.5 trillion when, in fact, the legislation will reduce the overall tax burden on individuals and companies over the next decade by $1.5 trillion, or $4 trillion less than what he cited.

“We have just signed into law the most significant tax cuts and reforms in American history — it’s a total of $5.5 trillion in tax cuts,” Mr. Trump said, adding that most of those benefits would go to “working families, small businesses and — who? — the family farmers.”

Mr. Trump apparently chose to highlight just one side of the ledger — the total amount of tax reductions in the bill that he signed in December — without counting the amount of taxes that were increased in the same legislation to help pay for the bill. White House officials declined to respond to questions about the president’s $5.5 trillion figure.[/QUOTE]

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[QUOTE]Declaring that the “American dream is roaring back to life,” Mr. Trump — who has made clear that he likes big numbers — claimed that the tax overhaul cut taxes by $5.5 trillion when, in fact, the legislation will reduce the overall tax burden on individuals and companies over the next decade by $1.5 trillion, or $4 trillion less than what he cited.

“We have just signed into law the most significant tax cuts and reforms in American history — it’s a total of $5.5 trillion in tax cuts,” Mr. Trump said, adding that most of those benefits would go to “working families, small businesses and — who? — the family farmers.”

Mr. Trump apparently chose to highlight just one side of the ledger — the total amount of tax reductions in the bill that he signed in December — without counting the amount of taxes that were increased in the same legislation to help pay for the bill. White House officials declined to respond to questions about the president’s $5.5 trillion figure.[/QUOTE]
Getting closer to 2000 lies a year all the time. Who knew that making America great again mainly consisted about lying about America becoming great again until the cult accepts it as god-granted fact? [sp]everyone except some Trump voters knew[/sp]

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[QUOTE]White House officials declined to respond to questions about the president’s $5.5 trillion figure.
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As long as you don't acknowledge it, your supporters will never hear about it.

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A vote for Trump is a vote against your own interests

I can respect not trusting the government and even wanting 'an outsider'

but Trump is as establishment as blueberries are blue

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[QUOTE][/QUOTE][QUOTE=J!NX;53038661][B]A vote for Trump is a vote against your own interests[/B]

I can respect not trusting the government and even wanting 'an outsider'

but Trump is as establishment as blueberries are blue[/QUOTE]

There was a pretty interesting [URL="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/31/trump-white-working-class-history-216200"]piece[/URL] put out by Politico that explored this idea further, and it might be the case that non-college-degree-holding white Americans simply have other interests in mind:

[QUOTE]Decades before so many white working-class citizens of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin—to say nothing of Alabama, West Virginia and Mississippi—cast their lot with a party that endeavors to raise their taxes and gut their health care, Du Bois identified the problem: Some wages aren’t denominated in hard currency. They carry a psychological payoff—even a spiritual one.

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Critically, Du Bois never insisted that the psychological wages of whiteness were wholly devoid of tangible value. What they forfeited in material benefits, working-class whites also recouped in limited power and privilege. “They were admitted freely with all classes of white people to public functions, public parks, and the best schools,” he wrote. “The police were drawn from their ranks. … The newspapers specialized on news that flattered the poor whites and utterly ignored the Negro except in crime and ridicule. On the other hand, the Negro was subject to insult; was afraid of mobs; was liable to the jibes of children and the unreasoning fears of white women; and was compelled almost continuously to submit to various badges of inferiority.” You couldn’t necessarily buy groceries with these benefits, but they were palpably meaningful.
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The article goes into detail about how wealthy southerners used race as a wedge issue to keep people from unionizing, and from participating in government. Poor whites seemed to be ok with their wages and rights being suppressed so long as they too were granted the privilege of suppressing the rights of others.