@inclementimmigrant to politics • 1 month agoUS farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportationwww.reuters.commessage-square32arrow-up1112arrow-down11cross-posted to: housing_bubble_2news
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minus-square@Death_Equitylink5•1 month agoThey will. Farms that grow crops that need manual harvesting will switch to corn, soy, etc. that can be harvested with a combine or shut down. The manual harvest crops will be bought from another country.
minus-square@Death_Equitylink2•1 month agoAnd supposedly lower taxes to help offset that somehow, but all the same the costs will be passed on to us.
Nope, go find someone else to exploit.
They will.
Farms that grow crops that need manual harvesting will switch to corn, soy, etc. that can be harvested with a combine or shut down. The manual harvest crops will be bought from another country.
With a huge donvict tariff on those…
And supposedly lower taxes to help offset that somehow, but all the same the costs will be passed on to us.