Millionaire Sen. Chuck Grassley applying for trump's farm bailout plan. - Polidicks

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/grassley-applying-for-trumps-farm-bailout-funds_us_5bb15303e4b0343b3dc1591c Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported President Donald Trump’s $12 billion bailout for U.S. farmers to mitigate the damaging effects of the trade war. Now the senator is applying for those same bailout funds for his own 750-acre Iowa farm, The Washington Post reports. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is also applying for payments.

It's like they invented a whole new kind of money laundering. YOu don't even have to steal and pillage, you just funnel public money into your own pocket on a scale never seen in history.

Welfare queens

Fiscal responsibility, everyone

Wow, Republicans are hypocrites?!?! No way?! This is disgusting. If a Democrat did this, there would be crosses burning in front of their city hall.

"Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is also applying for payments." It's in the blurb dude.

I think he means being for a bailout plan and helping it happen (I don't know if Chuck did this, I'm just assuming) and then just cashing in on said plan.

The military industrial and prison industrial complexes steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Well, how well is his farm running? Even if he's a millionaire, that doesn't mean his farm might not be struggling. Same with Tester's farm.

I'd guess 'as badly as would be needed to gain that bailout money'. The implication being that he can make his farm match the scenario where it 'then needs saving'.

It's self enrichment at the cost of the tax payer, fueled by tariffs created by his governments actions. Who gives a toss if his farm needs a billion dollars, this is a man who has actively sought to enrich himself, defraud the american people, and create a self fulfilling need for said government subsidy. The US is unable to sell it's soy crops at it's market value due to these tariffs, so the result is that Soy Farmers are loosing big time, so the result of that is the government bails them out to keep the republican vote in the mid-western states. It's absolutely corrupt as can be.

I don't really think its vote buying. Regardless of how farmers vote, theyre still suffering incredibly because of these tarrifs and these reparations arent going to cover much of it. Trump is an asshole but I think hes smart enough to know that killing one of the few remaining American industries is foolish. Farmers are already the highest suicide rate occupation, why make it tougher? The last thing any farmer wants is a handout that wont even cover half the soybeans rotting in their bins, why would that make them vote Trump? With that said, both of these reps. arent complete assholes for applying for these bail outs. Soybeans arent the only crop to be hit with these tarrifs, considering the US is one of the largest raw food exporters on the planet. So no matter what theyre growing, their farms are still hurt by this trade war. Despite both of them being worth millions, why should they cover the cost of Trump's stupidity from their own pockets? Theyre still farmers by trade just like every other farmer. Furthermore, being worth millions as a farmer doesn't mean you've got millions in your checking account. Combines, tractors, semis, ect. cost upwards of half a million dollars and if you have a 750 acre farm, youve probably got a couple of each. Having those means youve got a few million in assets but it doesnt translate to money in the bank. Grassley, a senator from a major agriculture state, supported the farm bailout probably so his constituency wouldn't completely suffer under the trade war. I doubt it was to make a few grand in a tens of thousands dollar loss. Same goes for Tester.

Supposedly it was running well before the tarrifs, no?

So I guess we just have to head up to washington and lynch anyone we see in a suit and tie.

I doubt theres any real information on that as filing a freedom of information act on his farm probably wont produce any newsworthy information. Farms in general tend to break even at the very least unless theres some mismanagement or weather related issues. So I'm sure there was some level of economic success there. The bottom line is that these tarrifs are affecting farmers on all economic levels, whether they have 10,000 acres or 10. You cant blame anyone in that industry asking for help to cover the losses Trump has incurred on then.