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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by EdwardDiego on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:08PM (#20721225)
> If you face a famine in NZ, you import from Australia, China, India

If is the key point here. We've never been anywhere close to a famine despite our farmers operating in an unprotected market.

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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by thomasz on Saturday August 17, 2019 @06:32AM (#20723249)
NZ has a very small population and absolutely no systemic importance. It’s not remotely comparable to the US.
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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by EdwardDiego on Sunday August 18, 2019 @02:50AM (#20728662)
Some great exceptionalism there. So, you subsidise corn farmers because of global geopolitics? Occam's Razor suggests myriad other explanations.
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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by pm90 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:36PM (#20731609)
Nothing you're saying makes any sense. As others have tried to say, the population + landmass of NZ make it statistically insignificant compared to US.
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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by EdwardDiego on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:21PM (#20733333)
Which is completely irrelevant to my discussion of how removing protectionist policies increased the efficiency of our agricultural sector.
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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by pm90 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:33AM (#20747419)
It’s relevant if your hypothesis is that it will have the same effect in the US, which I’m tired of saying at this point that it WONT.
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