Posted on 12/27/2006 5:22:07 AM PST by ProCivitas
And as I explained to you yesterday, if Americans don't want to pay the sugar tariff, they can buy beehives and harvest honey - no tax on honey. Grow sugarbeets and refine your own sugar - no tariff. Buy American made sugar - no tariff on American made products. Americans pay tariff on foreign produced sugar VOLUNTARILY at the store without audits, IRS agents, or April 15ths. The Founding Fathers (and I) believed it was better to have tariffs to finance the national government than an intrusive income tax - because it is a voluntary tax at the store.
In a nutshell, Americans do not have to pay more (or anything) for sweeteners but they have the option to do so if they wish for the sake of convenience. Tariffs give you the freedom to choose what you wish to pay in tax to the Federal Government - your income tax alternative to the tariff does not.
Great idea, raise everyone's prices. Follow the below link and tell me if that's a good idea for sugar.
I wonder how Howard Jarvis (ironic nic since he was a man who hated higher taxes) feels about our candy manufacturers moving out of the country to access cheaper sugar so they could compete with foreign producers. What do you think he would say to all those Americans who used to work at Brachs and Life Savers who lost their jobs just to protect American sugar farmers?
I wonder if they studied the law of unintended consequences where he took economics.
Great idea. Raise the tariff on foreign cars to 100% and everyone can build their own cars!
Buy American made sugar - no tariff on American made products.
American producers won't raise their price when foreign sugar gets more expensive? What about supply and demand? Do you think restricting foreign supply will raise domestic prices?
Tariffs give you the freedom to choose what you wish to pay in tax to the Federal Government
That's funny! Take an economics class. You're embarrassing yourself.
"Funny how Toyota can build cars in the US and people want to buy them."
True but not funny if you are GM or FORD. When the Japanese Auto Manufacturers start building reliable diesel heavy duty pickup truck, it's game over.
This is news? People don't know this? Where have the authors been living?
Another victim of the "Free Lunch" theory of tax hikes. Sounds like a liberal.
In theory free trade is a great idea, just like communism is a great idea. Problem is neither works in practice. To pursue some utopian dream at great national expense is at best stupid and some might even say treasonous.
Maybe some day in the far off future when the world has one government free trade will work, but not today not with our trading "partners" playing us for the fools we are.
It would be nice if we had domestic suppliers of every product we need or want. And if we don't change our policies which realistically FORCE industries out of the country, we can expect to be more and more reliant on foreign producers.
Our past policies have gotten us where we are today. They can be fixed and the damage undone.
The free market does work if allowed to. Every new restriction we put on it, from the ones I mentioned in my prior post, to tariffs, all distort economic efficiency.
The more you distort it, the more it looks like the command economies of the communist model. And that has a proven record of failure everywhere it's been tried.
I'm not saying "just let anything go" and everything will be fine. Corporate America should be required to observe some reasonable requirements. But the hand should be light on the tiller.
A philosophy that we should artificially make imports more expensive than domestic products, and then demanding that domestic products be made according to government mandate is a guaranteed recipe for a declining standard of living, less economic output, and ultimate collapse.
Just look for the union label (on this story)
Higher tariffs didn't start the Great Depression. In fact they ended the Great Depression. You can tell when you see how much exports increased after Smoot Hawley. LOL!
You ignore the issue that domestic American manufacturers will be competing in the sugar market as well as the automotive market with each other, driving down prices.
As Abraham Lincoln put it when he was asked about buying cheaper British trains and rails for the Transcontinental Railroad instead of American products,
If Americans buy the foreigner's rails, America will have the rails and foreigners will have our money. But if Americans buy the rails from other Americans, America will have both the rails and the moneys. I agree with Lincoln on this.
I always suspected you were a Commie.
Maybe some day in the far off future when the world has one government
There you go again.
Debunked where?
It wasn't the sole cause, but it definitely was a major contributor. No serious historian that I've read disputes that.
Yes the conservative thing is to support a progressive confiscatory income tax. LOL you are too funny.
He's much bigger on anecdotes than actual facts. I don't know if he's capable of doing the research. He does love Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
You ignore the fact that foreign sugar is cheaper than American sugar.
"LOL since you are ALWAYS wrong that does not surprise me in the least.
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