Posted on 08/04/2015 4:22:30 AM PDT by expat_panama
Don’t piss the socialist free traitors off......
I’m not finished discussing your excellent voluntary tariff idea.
Interesting. Do you see any difference in the trend by age? Are all age groups digging in for the long haul?
Boomers don’t need to move up, just the opposite. Youngers are realizing they don’t need to move up. These are the eco kids. Your post almost feels like movement back to the early 60s. We saw very few move up. People bought the house they could afford and planted for as long as possible where I came from. Sure there were the movers but a lot of people weren’t.
I am not a fan of the progressive income tax. I would much prefer a flat (proportional) income tax or a consumption tax. (Under some reasonable assumptions, those two are essentially equivalent.) A tariff increases the price of imported goods and their domestic substitutes.
Sorry, gov needs to be funded because it is a necessary evil so the smart thing to do is fund government in the least harmful way with the smallest possible amount of money. Tariffs, a voluntary tax. Make the tax to big and nobody will "volunteer" to pay it. Perfect solution. However tariffs will not generate the revenue required to fund a socialist welfare state. That requires an income tax. Which is why I would trade the IRS for tariffs in a new york second.
If domestic manufacturers are secretly colluding on price fixing then that is a crime.
The Constitution was written in 1787 so is it “out dated” also?
If companies aren't investing in or spending capital expenditures, they aren't hiring people...
If they aren't at or near 100 % capacity that means the employees are not at 100 % utilization...
That's why companies are asking employees to do two or three people's jobs...instead of terminating them...
If they quit lots of people looking for work...
This administration runs the economy soviet style...command and control instead of free market...
You are talking to the biggest tariff proponent and anti income tax person on Free republic. We are simpatico.
So no domestic manufacturer will increases production and gain a bigger market share? The demand is static? So increasing tariffs will not stimulate domestic production? Where did you go to school?
If there is sufficient domestic competition a tariff would not necessarily raise the price of domestic goods. There are lots of wineries in the USA putting a 20% tariff on imported wines would not effect to local wine prices, IMHO.
An effect revenue generating tariff would be a flat across board tariff, only stuff we need to import like crude oil would be exempt. We get into trouble with tariffs when we start using them to protect industries from competition. But that is a different topic.
He thinks if we put a $10,000 tariff on imported cars, domestic car manufacturers will keep their prices the same.
Nobody said I wanted a 10K tariff per car you disingenuous fool. Maybe a quota system LIKE REAGAN did.
Maybe a quota system LIKE REAGAN did.
A quota system won't raise domestic prices? Tell me more.
don’t waste your time.
I would like to see the big 3 relocate to R-T-W states instead of the turd world. Every factory that closes in the USA is a mini tragedy.
I am convinced Todd is on the ChiCom payroll.
I am proposing a revenue generating tariff. A protectionist tariff generates far fewer dollars and tends to piss off our trading partners. Sometimes protectionist tariffs (or quotas) are necessary too if a nation is dumping product below cost in an attempt to wipe out one of our industries but that is a different topic.
Yes tariffs can generate lots of revenue. Just want to offset it by reducing income taxes. Even a 10% tarriff of China alone would generate around 466 billion/yr. China can’t retaliate because the ALREADY tariff almost every non ag import.
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