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American farmers are pleading for exemptions from President Donald Trump’s tariffs. GOP farm states reps are working to deliver the relief farmers want.

Tariffs will indeed hurt farmers badly. Farm costs will rise. Farm incomes will drop. Under Trump’s tariffs, farmers will pay more for fertilizer. They will pay more for farm equipment. They will pay more for the fuel to ship their products to market. When foreign countries retaliate, raising their own tariff barriers, American farmers will lose export markets. Their domestic sales will come under pressure too, because tariffs will shrink Americans’ disposable incomes: Consumers will have to cut back everywhere, including at the grocery store.

Farmers will share this tariff predicament of higher costs and lower incomes with almost all Americans—except the very wealthiest, who are less exposed to tariffs because they consume less of their incomes and can offset the pain of tariffs with other benefits from Trump, beginning with a dramatic reduction in tax enforcement.

Farmers are different from other Americans, however, in three ways.

First, farmers voted for Trump by huge margins. In America’s 444 most farm-dependent counties, Trump won an average of 77.7 percent of the vote.

Second, farmers have already pocketed windfall profits from Trump’s previous round of tariffs.

Third, farmers can better afford to pay the price of Trump’s tariffs than many other tariff victims.

But if a farm family voted for Trump, believing that his policies were good, it seems strange that they would then demand that they, and only they, should be spared the full consequences of those policies. Tariffs are the meal that rural America ordered for everyone. Now the dish has arrived at the table. If rural America cannot choke down its portion, why must other Americans stomach theirs?

I am supposed to be getting married this year and I am sinking financially.

I was an Advanced EMT working in public safety many years ago, until I got into some trouble and lost my license due to 2 misdemeanor convictions (stemming from same incident; never having been in trouble before)

I switched careers into the tech industry and worked as a software developer for 4 years. Sadly, the job market in tech has been destroyed.

Sadly, despite being highly skilled and capable, I feel like I am going to have to settle. Even my mom is rather disappointed that I am considering truck driving, when she said I "could have been a doctor" but those damn misdemeanors from long ago are holding me back.

I am going to truck driving school, and they are lining it up to where I can at least have my wedding. But afterwards, I will be away from home for about a year, only being able to have a few days off every few weeks.

Although, I have the potential of making up to $1,500 a week. I was making $76k/yr at my cozy remote web developer job, but as I said, my industry has been wrecked.