• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    It also forces farmers to sell more of their products here in the U.S., to bring grocery prices way down. We’ve already seen this with eggs.

    The absolutely stupid thing about this particular statement is that egg imports had risen to meet demand which was forcing egg prices back down. The tariffs are going to completely reverse that.

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      Also, plus, too we’re doing next to nothing about Bird Flu that’s killing the egg laying chickens and causing the shortage.

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        Also we don’t have any day laborers to plant and pick our crops this year beacuse they are all too scared/deported for the US to produce enough food for ourselves.

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          Lol fuck America depending on day laborers to subsidize low grocery prices. Time for all you citizens to get off your ass and head to the fields

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          And they aren’t doing hospitality jobs, construction jobs, working in disney

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            Which is actually good this year because tourism is already down 30% and im too poor to travel. They would more than likely have lost their jobs by end of summer.

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              yes it is good, florida, and texas have been touting how they are all conservative bastion stronghold, let see them pick some houseplants for a change. additionally its also why they rolled back child labor laws, but it still primarly target immigrants.