Well, you certainly are an economic illiterate.
And clearly a protectionist, you admit as much and you think it’s really, really smart stuff. According to you, the British empire would have survived to this day with a few more tariffs and a little less of that nasty free world trade.
And tariffs should work forever, since that’s what we started with as a system of taxation.
Ya know, tariffs are a very blunt tax instrument, a favorite of Luddites and proponents of mercantilism everywhere, but I understand that you absolutely love and adore tariffs.
If you want to go with a consumption tax, I would agree with you — impose an X% tax on all consumption, regardless of the source of the product — and eliminate all income taxes and tariffs.
But that’s not what you want. You want protectionist tariffs in all their rabble-rousing and revenue-raising glory. Until they impoverish everyone, everywhere.
Say, what do you think of the new Florida tariff on Georgia peaches?
And the retaliatory Georgia tariff on Florida oranges?
And the other 50,000 tariffs on interstate trade items that the 50 state legislatures dreamed up after the union dissolved?
Inquiring minds want to know what a protectionist from the 1800s thinks.
My, my you are really uninformed aren't you?
Tariffs between states is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution, and all domestically made products can be imported or shipped to another state tax-free.
Section 9
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
By your unseemly rambling and insults, it seems you are an entirely irrational loon.
Totally made up BS. Never happened, can't happen it is unconstitutional.