Joe Biden’s economic policies have been sucking the financial blood out of Americans like a vampire, dealing a blow to small business owners who are battered by sustained inflation and high taxes.
With no relief in sight from the ravages of “Bidenomics” and the prospect that enough voters will be swayed by propaganda and the emotional issue of abortion to give another four years to the most destructive president in the nation’s history, entrepreneurial Americans who want to remain independent from big corporations are struggling to make ends meet.
Two of them, a first-generation cattle ranching couple in Idaho discussed the dire times and the difficulty of remaining in business in the current environment during an appearance on Thursday’s edition of “America Reports” on Fox News.
(Video: Fox News)
Megan and Trevor Stark joined anchor Sandra Smith where they explained the dramatic increase in costs since 2020, the year that the Democrat career politician was elected.
“When we started this business back in 2020 things were drastically different for everybody, costs were much different, just everything was just so much differnent,” Megan said. “And so the last, probably I’d say year and a half, our costs have have actually gone up 75 percent across the board for livestock, for feed prices, fuel, everything. So it’s gone up a drastic amount, and for us to continue on and to make a living, and expand and go through our entire business plan like we plan on, it’s very challenging.”
Things have been so tough that Trevor has been forced to work a second job with his parents.
“Well I’ve always worked for my parents’ construction company, and we’d notice that with fuel prices and whatnot going up there… I’ll always continue to work the construction job, but this is what we want to do to kind of set our kids up for a little more ag,” he said.
“We’re trying to cut costs in a way that doesn’t hinder our quality of service and product, so we’re doing, like everybody else, cutting costs where we can and adjusting basically any which way we can to keep our costs, at least where they’re at, so they don’t keep rising,” Megan said, explaining how the couple is adapting to the difficult situation. “And that’s part of the problem is they continue to keep rising. So as we adjust, things keep going.”
“We talk to our customers all the time. We have a very open and transparent business with our clients and our customers. So they feel the same things that we feel, and they know they’re basically part of our triangle as family and so their opinions and their, their opinions matter,” she added, telling the outlet that they have put out a survey to customers “to gauge the thoughts and perspective of their customers on how to best address the financial constraints of pernicious inflation.”
“We recently put that out and we have had a great turnout of customers just insane support,” Megan said. “And so we are moving on with that and trying to figure out how to keep going.”
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Author: Chris Donaldson
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