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I like these three points that directly affect Trump supporters:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/16/news/economy/trump-budget-plan-americans/index.html
-- Federal funding for the Appalachian Regional Commission would be eliminated. The federal-state partnership was designed to build infrastructure and create economic opportunity across a region that runs from New York to Mississippi and includes some of the poorest pockets of the country.
-- A program that offers federal funding to low-income families for help with home energy bills would be eliminated. Trump's budget describes the program as being "unable to demonstrate strong performance outcomes."
Clare Higgins, the head of an organization that last year oversaw the distribution of more than $6 million worth of federal money for about 7,500 households in rural Massachusetts, said eliminating the grant would be devastating for the community.
-- The budget would eliminate a Transportation Department program that provides $175 million in subsidized commercial air service to rural airports. The program serves more than 30 states. The Trump budget argues that many of the flights aren't full, and serve places "relatively close" to major airports.
When keeping it white supremacy goes wrong
In addition to white supremacy clouding their judgement, rural conservatives often times get their judgement clouded by this rural romanticism.
City dwellers romanticize rural life because everything usually seems better fro ma distance but nowadays, rural people romanticize rural life. Technology, global trade and lots of Federal and state subsidies and make life pretty clean, safe, reliable and comfortable for people in rural areas. We now have conservatives in rural areas who romanticize rural life before government "ruined it."
While rurual voters tend to be more in favor of libertarianism, they would be hit the hardest by the United States embracing libertarianism. Big cities would do best under libertarianism because private infrastructure and mutual aid societies would be much more robust in cities.
It would be rural roads, airports, water treatment plants, mail service, water service, internet and electricity that would dry up because "the market" would deem them unsustainable. Say goodbye to the days that you can ride in your air conditioned thresher while making deals with futures market all around the globe. Say hello to grinding toil and selling your meager yields for what ever price the nearest town or city is offering.