[Willie Green]

Your indifference to American workers in export industries is troubling.

They also are shackled by the federal government's bureaucratic and litigatory environmental and safety/health restrictions. That is why the Trade Deficit continues to expand as even our export industries are undermined. They too would benefit from implementation of a relatively low (10~15%), flate-rate "revenue tariff" placed on ALL imported goods. The proceeds from such a tariff could be used to finance further reduction of other forms of domestic taxation, benefitting ALL domestic industries, including export!!!

[A. Pole]

The proceeds from such a tariff could be used to finance further reduction of other forms of domestic taxation, benefitting ALL domestic industries, including export!!!

And to pay for the retraining (which is reduced/eliminated by the Bush administration).

[BMiles2112]

Holy Crap!
This "free traitor" agrees with Willie Green on something. With you on the federal restrictions. As long as there WAS a concurrent reduction in all other forms of taxation that would ensure that there was no overall additional tax burden on our economy, I could support that. Ideally, I would start with a national sales tax as the primary form of revenue generation, with the flat tariff on all goods as you suggest with a fixed, permanent limit of no more than 10-15%.