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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trump promised to lower grocery prices on day one. Instead he canceled food stamps and WIC and inflated food prices and gas with the stupid war that he promised not to get into. And he promised to show us the Epstein files. We been had.[/quote]

Never mind that food stamps and WIC are also effectively a farming subsidy that also keeps prices lower.[/quote]

No. Because the subsidy goes on the buyer's side, it keeps prices higher. It allows the poorer consumer to compete at a higher price point. It's the same reason why giving grants to home buyers doesn't lower home prices.[/quote]

Except that food aid keeps farmers in business.  Farmers go out of business, the farms go out of business and get bought up by corporations, leading to less competition.  The Iran war is already going to massively hurt farmers with the diesel and fertilizer prices.

This is all heading to a food cost spiral.
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Farmers get a different set of subsidies directly.[/quote]

They get additional subsidies, which are conveniently also getting cut.  There's a reason food aid appears in the farm bill.

Not to mention cutting the inspectors and programs that protected livestock.

Everything Trump is doing is raising food prices.[/quote]

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