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To: central_va

“More import tariffs and less Marxist income taxes.”

Most stuff we use should be made in the USA.

We simply shouldn’t be importing:
1. stuff that can be made and packaged by automated equipment
[we should only be importing high comparative advantage products
like sewn garments and other high assembly time consumer products]
2. ferrous products for motor vehicles
[we export few cars - tariffs on automobile grade steel won’t hurt US automakers]
3. aluminum alloys for aircraft
[we need the absolute ability to build warplanes]
4. inputs to make plastic products
[this stuff is made at industrial scale]
5. life-saving drugs and their precursors
[so our sick people can’t be held hostage by anti-American governments]

Primarily low cost-high labor content stuff we can’t make cheaply enough should be imported.

Raw materials should come in mainly tariff free.

I don’t see tariff revenue exceeding $10 billion/year after 2035 under my tariff/reindustrialization plan.


22 posted on 05/02/2026 7:04:22 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask your Congressman to tax tariff refunds at 100% & > ~$600 to each insured vehicle owner 4 gas)
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To: Brian Griffin

MAKE.EVERYTHING.IN.THE.USA. Never give an inch.


23 posted on 05/02/2026 7:16:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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