Will tariffs cause food shortages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good luck with no migrants coming for their seasonal work.

Isn’t it a good thing that nobody is being shipped in to harvest your food for poverty wages? Why are we supporting the use of POC to make your life cheaper and better?

Sure you care

Sorry, I thought it was a good thing for government to want to make life cheaper and better for Americans. There are American POC who will benefit from "cheaper and better."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good luck with no migrants coming for their seasonal work.

Isn’t it a good thing that nobody is being shipped in to harvest your food for poverty wages? Why are we supporting the use of POC to make your life cheaper and better?

DP... How is it good? Who's going to pick the produce?

Farmers have tried getting home-grown labor. Nobody wants to do it. Even for $15 an hour. For more than that, the produce is too expensive and most people just stop buying it. Most consumers don't have the kind of wealth to pay for produce when it gets excessively expensive.

The alternative is to bring in labor. But for some reason we as a country are mentally dysfunctional about this. We know we need the labor but refuse to fix the system to let it happen legally. All we need to do is to fix and improve our worker visa system, and to align it better to the actual workforce and actual labor demand - along with ending fraudulent practices. For example we should not be bringing in H 1 B tech workers when qualified US citizen tech workers are unemployed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good luck with no migrants coming for their seasonal work.

Isn’t it a good thing that nobody is being shipped in to harvest your food for poverty wages? Why are we supporting the use of POC to make your life cheaper and better?

DP... How is it good? Who's going to pick the produce?

Farmers have tried getting home-grown labor. Nobody wants to do it. Even for $15 an hour. For more than that, the produce is too expensive and most people just stop buying it. Most consumers don't have the kind of wealth to pay for produce when it gets excessively expensive.

The alternative is to bring in labor. But for some reason we as a country are mentally dysfunctional about this. We know we need the labor but refuse to fix the system to let it happen legally. All we need to do is to fix and improve our worker visa system, and to align it better to the actual workforce and actual labor demand - along with ending fraudulent practices. For example we should not be bringing in H 1 B tech workers when qualified US citizen tech workers are unemployed.

If it happened legally, those people also would not work for the wages currently offered. THAT'S the issue. The system requires the cheap food prices achieved through slave wages. Capitalism cannot reconcile these contradictions and will eventually fail. Unfortunately, it looks like fascism will replace it, and it'll be the scapegoats and marginalized communities forced to pick the food under slave-like conditions.

[Anonymous]

I bought extra toilet paper, sugar and will buy more flour next time I go to the store.

I know that these things should still be available, but some people are going to start panic buying when they see empty shelves. It’s just a part of human nature when they think resources will become scarce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good luck with no migrants coming for their seasonal work.

Isn’t it a good thing that nobody is being shipped in to harvest your food for poverty wages? Why are we supporting the use of POC to make your life cheaper and better?

pointless comment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bought extra toilet paper, sugar and will buy more flour next time I go to the store.

I know that these things should still be available, but some people are going to start panic buying when they see empty shelves. It’s just a part of human nature when they think resources will become scarce.

Do you have a six month supply of medicine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bought extra toilet paper, sugar and will buy more flour next time I go to the store.

I know that these things should still be available, but some people are going to start panic buying when they see empty shelves. It’s just a part of human nature when they think resources will become scarce.

Do you have a six month supply of medicine?

No, and I won’t be able to get it. Insurance pays for it on a schedule. The very costly ones ($1K-$6K/mo) will be shipped to me anyways. I can live without most of my medications.