The weird thing with this one is that America already has a thriving wine and sparkling wine industry. $ for $ I vastly prefer CA reds over French or Italian. Now, in the higher end I will switch to preferring French or Italian, but a $20 pinot from Central Coast is way better than a $20 “Burgundy” or “Tuscan Red.” Getting into the $50 range it starts being pretty equal, and then in the $100+ range the European wines start dominating.

So a tariff won’t really help the US at all, since we already have what he says is his intended purpose.

Thanks for this context! It’s quite easy for people outside of an area to lump a bunch of stuff together.

Didn’t hurt the Republicans every time they threatened a shutdown when the Democrats were in power. And if the Dems think they can get some concessions from the R’s by forcing the country to get hit, then it might be worth it to stop some crazy shit in the long run.

We were just having a similar discussion, though not about Enya. My position was if I had a billion dollars, you know what I would do? I’d recreate Hogwarts Castle. I’m not even a huge Harry Potter fan and hate what’s-her-name, but how cool would it be to live in a beautiful movie set house the size of a small town?

What I’m not seeing from this story is whether the farmers have tried paying a higher wage to attract workers who are not at risk of being deported. Are they paying slave wages and taking advantage of a population of people who are unable to get a less physically demanding job?

Another thing I’m not seeing is any mention of how these farmers voted in the latest election. Rural Pennsylvania isn’t exactly a hotbed of liberal ideology. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same people screamed about “illegals.”