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Wild how “government handouts” are socialism, right up until Trump’s tariffs hit your farm. Then suddenly it’s just “helping hardworking Americans.”

Farmers are being crushed. Diesel has surged, fertilizer has skyrocketed, machinery and repairs cost more, and tariffs have added costs to critical farm inputs, all while many crop prices and profit margins remain weak.

Some farmers are now facing the possibility of losing land and family farms that took generations to build; Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies have been rising, with April 2026 filings hitting their highest monthly level in more than six years. Source 1

They were promised tariffs would protect American farmers. Instead, many are watching their costs explode and their livelihoods disappear, and now the government is being asked to bail them out from policies they were told would make them prosper.

From my visit at Jericho Beach, Vancouver last night <3

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