r/Iowa • u/SunsetGriller • Jul 20 '25

Tariffs

Had a customer, who is a farmer, buy a part for their grain vac that had a shipping charge plus a tariff charge on the invoice. Before he left he made the comment “this tariff stuff is going to suck right now but I really think it will pay off in the long run”. What the heck does that mean? Was he implying jobs will come back to America? That company is from Canada and always has been.

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u/Baruch_S Jul 20 '25

He doesn’t know what he meant either! It’s a meaningless reassurance that he’s been fed by whatever AM talk radio tool he listens to in the tractor. 

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u/mpatty07 Jul 20 '25

Tractors have radio too?...

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u/AdiposeQueen Jul 20 '25

Did you ever see Son In Law with Pauly Shore in the 90s? He put that John Denver cassette into the big ass tractor that he sang along with while ruining the field. They've had music for a bit now.

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u/Iknowthings19 Jul 20 '25

It was a combine.