Our farmers in Washington have to pay $17 per hour minimum wage, while competitors in other states pay only $7 per hour. And Mexican farmers only pay $17 per DAY. Plus Washington state farmers have to pay tons extra for all the environmental and climate and safety regulations.
We either need super steep tariffs to make sure everything is kept on an even playing field, or to abolish all of these nonsense regulations, or we will see all of our farmers go bankrupt and we won’t produce food here anymore.