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[quote=Anonymous]Jobs get moved overseas because all of the government regulations have made it too expensive to keep employees in the United States. When jobs are moved overseas, our economy takes a hit. And, Democrats are just as much in cahoots with top executives. Do a little research on how Mylan CEO, Heather Bresch, was able to price gouge and learn about the Democrats role in this. The Democrats are great at convincing the poor and the middle class that they are working for them. This could not be further from the truth. Their policies only hurt these groups.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the problem with the Democratic party. They micromanage everything. They tell us where our money should go. They tell doctors how they should practice medicine. They tell farmers how they should farm. They tell military commanders how they should lead. They tell teachers how they should teach. Enough is enough!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Democrats' policies only hurt rural America.

1) The Democrats love micromanaging with a large federal government. The EPA is one example of this. The EPA writes more and more regulations making farmers' jobs more difficult. When they write new rules, they do not consider the impact that it will have on rural America. The larger the government becomes, the more it impedes economic growth. A message to the EPA: Get out of the way and let the farmers do their job. Some regulation is okay. But, the amount of regulation is getting ridiculous.

2) The new death tax (40%, no more valuation discount): This is not good for family owned farms/businesses

3) Rural America demographics: They own more property and they are largely self-employed. Republican policies are better for small businesses, self-employed, and owners of land.

[quote=Anonymous]For years the Republicans have been riding the resentment of rural Americans in order to help big business.  You can understand why rural Americans have some resentment but still recognize that Trump is just the apex of that process.  The dems are more likely to actually help rural America than Trump is, but their help comes with a lot of urban value baggage.[/quote][/quote]

oh please, there is nothing more ridiculous than farmers claiming the feds are "interfering" too much in their business.

First of all, they like to hide behind the idea of the family farm when most of them are giant agribusinesses.  The average hog farm used to raise a few hundred hogs, now it's more like 10,000, with no place to put all the hogshit.

Second of all, there are few industries more dependent on government regulation and subsidies-- farmers will get about $14 BILLION in crop support this year-- which is about 25% of their net income (for comparison all federal TANF, or "welfare" payments aren't much more, about $16 billion). I am not against having some sort of crop support program but for farmers to complain about too much federal involvement is basically like my teenager asking me for $40 and not wanting to tell me what the hell he needs it for.

Third, because of the hallowed place farmers have in our political mythology, they already bear far less than their fair share of regulation.  Water systems need to spend billions and billions to clean up nitrates from farm pollution runoff, and they've killed off much of the Chesapeake bay, Everglades, and lots of other important areas.

By the way, there are already provisions to help family farms deal with estate taxes, and they are hardly ever needed/used, so that's another smokescreen.
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and the problem with the Republicans is they trust big business to do whatever they think is best, when as Trump will very clearly tell you, they only care for what's best for the owners and top executives. That's how you end up with businesses driving wages down and moving everything offshore.[/quote][/quote]

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