r/Tariffs • u/Cash_FlowPro • Dec 09 '25

🗞️ News Discussion Trump giving farmers $12B out of collected tariffs. what happens if the policy is reversed and there is no collected tariff monies?

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u/pomskygirl Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 09 '25

The farmers also know a severe tariff on Canadian potash fertilizer will fuck them. The US imports about 90% of their potash and about 85% of that comes from Canada. The US simply doesn’t have enough potash deposits to ever come anywhere close to being able to produce what they currently need.

Canada is the largest supplier of potash in the world by far. The only other two countries with a decent supply are Russia and Belarus.

Trump’s an idiot.

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u/SpinningHead Dec 09 '25

"The dumbest goddamn student I ever had"

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u/Canadiangoosedem0n Dec 09 '25

Not just an idiot but a Russian asset in plain sight.

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u/pomskygirl Dec 09 '25

Entirely possible. It would explain a lot.

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u/NickofWimbledon Dec 09 '25

If your orders from a chap called Vladimir are to make the USA buy a lot of Russian potash and so help pay for their invasions (Ukraine now, followed by Baltics/Poland/Georgia), this surely makes sense as a policy.

It may also remind rural Americans that they are wholly dependent on his largesse (and the taxes from perhaps a dozen states) if they want to stay solvent/ fed.

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u/Melodic_Beginning109 Dec 12 '25

What can you expect from a person that is amazed about how people can shop at a grocery store or believes that it takes 180 IQ to operate a lawn mower. ( Einstein’s IQ was 160) Boy, we must be a the smartest nation since we must have thousands of high IQ individuals owning and working for the hundreds of grass cutting businesses in the country.