MHarryE
Elite Member
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2009
- Messages
- 2,949
- Location
- Northeastern Minnesota
- Tractor
- Kubota M7-171, M5-111, SVL75-2, RTV900XT & GR2120; CaseIH 1680 combine
I see so many comments the $2400 I got as COVID stimulus triggering inflation. Long before that I saw prices climb due to tariffs. When a tariff is added, who pays the cost? Government? Manufacturer? No, it’s always the end user. Then billions given out to farmers like me to compensate for retaliatory tariffs and what they did to commodity prices - watch farmers on YouTube and note their equipment purchases with the compensatory money. But I didn’t get stimulus money to compensate for tariffs on washers, driers, refrigerators. And steel tariffs to protect our small remaining steel operations in America have really taken a toll on attachments, but I live in America’s iron mining center and the miners are mostly sitting pretty - as long as they can pass the random drug testing. My mining friends and neighbors - these are the good old days because of how the tariffs have boosted the price of US steel and scrap only goes so far in supplying the demand. Nothing like fresh ore for quality steel. And the trickle down effects double the cost of your attachments.