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One<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansas.com\/profile\/217801150\" target=\"_blank\"> Kansas journalist<\/a> indulged in that right when he penned an opinion piece bemoaning America\u2019s lack of an item the two terror organizations regularly use: mini-pickup trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMany\u2019s the time I\u2019ve turned on the nightly news and seen Taliban or ISIS militants tooling around in mini-trucks, mostly Toyotas, with machine guns bolted to the bed \u2018Rat Patrol\u2019 style,\u201d wrote Dion Lefler, opinion editor for <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.kansas.com\/opinion\/opn-columns-blogs\/dion-lefler\/article274837471.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Wichita Eagle<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery time I see that, I say to myself (or anyone unlucky enough to be in earshot), \u2018There, that\u2019s the truck I want\u2019 \u2014 minus the machine gun, which I\u2019d only need if I were driving [Kansas Attorney General] Kris Kobach in a parade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The author of the piece goes on to state that \u201cprofits and politics\u201d are the reasons why the average Joe can\u2019t purchase a tiny Toyota with desert sand damage, a free-flying flag and gun turret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cProfits, because car manufacturers make way more per unit selling jumbo trucks,\u201d Lefler notes. \u201cAnd politics because of an antiquated trade policy levying a 25% tariff on imported light trucks, in retaliation for a European tariff on U.S. chicken.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those not familiar, \u201cThe Chicken Tax\u201d was initiated under President Lyndon B. 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