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To: sixmil
I have paid plenty of sales taxes, but never once a tariff

Yes you have. It's simply built in as a higher price. Sure, you didn't get a reciept handed to you that said "tariff fee $2.98" on it but the effect is still the exact same thing, meaning you paid more to cover the taxes.

8 posted on 12/05/2003 6:28:58 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
Yes you have. It's simply built in as a higher price. Sure, you didn't get a reciept handed to you that said "tariff fee $2.98" on it but the effect is still the exact same thing, meaning you paid more to cover the taxes.

It's not the same. If I decide I don't want to pay tariffs, I just buy American. Same with excise taxes. Sales taxes are unavoidable. The only way I can limit sales taxes is to buy less, which is bad for the economy. Same with income taxes. I either come up with a bunch of phoney deductions or just make less money.

The money I save on tariffs, assuming they are not eaten by the importer, are repaid by supporting unemployed workers that need to be retrained for jobs that will soon be exported. I don't see where you end up ahead unless your goal is to have everything run through the big government filter.

9 posted on 12/06/2003 12:17:27 AM PST by sixmil (Where have all the conservatives gone?)
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