Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers already shut out of their top market and hit by low prices.

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    18 hours ago

    Ironically, this is (partially) why government social support services originally started in England. Back in the Victorian period, the rich realised it was cheaper to pay a bit more tax to keep the poor fed, than pay for security to stop them being robbed. It was also cheaper than locking them all up.

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      18 hours ago

      Which is why we will never be allowed to starve … not fed enough, not enough nutrition, constantly hungry … but never allowed to completely starve.

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        13 hours ago

        Not like you will have statistics or free media to know one way or the other. Lmao

        Glad USians sacrificed all those children to gun violence in case they ever needed to use their guns to fight tyranny. /s

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        17 hours ago

        This is America we’re talking about here. MAGA is fucking cruel. They’ll take pleasure watching people starve who they’ve deemed as lessor.

        That already think all immigrants in the country are criminals and cheer when they’re deported to death camps.

        Sorry, friend. You’re starving.