Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's farmer bailout, failing to solve the problem.

Trump has always talked about his love of farmers.

When announcing the bailout, he said, quote,

We're going to make them so strong that it will be indeed a golden age for farmers.

He knows the demographic is critical to the Republican coalition,

and once said, quote,

I won the farmers by 92%, and I'm not going to be abandoning my farmers.

So, now that the details are out about the bailout, how is the golden age coming along?

Hmm, not so great. Turns out that regardless of the percentage of a demographic that votes for him,

he might just not care.

As we discussed when he made the announcement, it's not enough.

The $12 billion bailout also wasn't all going to the farmers who thought they were getting it.

When it's all said and done, soybean farmers will get $30.88

per acre and corn farmers will receive $44.36 per acre. That's based off a USDA production cost

figure. That, of course, doesn't really seem to take the extra cost

farmers have to pay because of Trump's tariffs into account. The bailout payments will also be

capped at $155,000 and will only be available to farms that make less than 900,000 in adjusted gross income.

But last time Trump's policies hurt the agriculture industry enough to need bailouts,

some of the large farms found ways to game the payment limits. So, Trump's trade war cost

American farmers' market share. Again. The bailout isn't enough.

Again. And the administration's promises to soybean farmers, about China buying 12 million metric tons

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