Last week Trump addressed a convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He touted his tax plan as helping family farmers, and he once again explained how the estate tax repeal would allow farms to be passed to the next generation.
Trump is a lying sack of horse fertilizer. He continues to either exaggerate or lie outright. Some things you should know:
The American Farm Bureau Federation is an organization of corporate farms and large agribusiness units. It is not an organization of family farmers or part-time farmers.
Most of the tax cut benefits will go to the very top tier of Americans. The average farmer will get little or nothing.
Farm workers will get zip. Many will be deported.
Approximately 80 agricultural enterprises would have fallen under the existing estate tax. As you can imagine, those are huge entities of the very rich.
Trump may speak for wealthy agribusiness, but he does not speak for the vast majority of farmers. Few farmers are in it for the money. If they were, they would have quit farming long ago. They are in it because they love the land, love to grow things, love to produce food from seeds and water and soil and sweat.
A man who never even had a garden, never grew a goddam thing, should not be taking about farming.
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