Letter: We are paying for farmers’ $16B bailout, not China

We are paying for farmers’
$16B bailout, not China

Re: “Trump to send farmers $16B more in China trade-war aid” (Page C7, May 23):

A $16 billion — with a “b” — bailout package for farmers because China’s tariffs placed on farmers’ goods has hurt their sales.

And Trump says that China is providing the funds for the bailout package? How can that be? Any tariffs on goods coming from China are paid by the U.S. consumer, then our government gets that money and gives it to our farmers.

Tariffs on our goods going into China raised their cost, so buyers in China have turned to other countries to buy products that they previously bought from our farmers.

China goes to Putin and explains the situation, and Putin agrees to provide goods that our farmers were once supplying to China.

The lobster industry is having the same problem our farmers are experiencing. Meanwhile, our farmer friends should not complain about those on welfare or food stamps; the tariffs put them in the same boat.

James Little
Brentwood

 

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