When the whole thing went bankrupt, there were a lot of people that were just desperate in southwest Virginia and across the country, who spent their lives mining coal who suddenly had no pension or health benefits to look forward to.
Beyer highlights the impact of coal industry bankruptcies on workers' benefits.
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in no way is insisting that international corporations who have been purposefully cheating on their taxes, avoiding taxes through great manipulation, is a move to global socialism.
The unfairness of having the rich pay by one set of rules and working families pay by another is pernicious and dangerous.
We should use the farm bill to direct USDA to be a better partner to farmers practicing perennial agriculture.
I just feel this will be stealing money from Virginia farmers, from America's farmers that they have already anticipated receiving, $275 million just in Virginia.
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