Because he hates the FairTax
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why?
"Because he hates the FairTax"
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"why?"
He's a Pat Buchanon protectionist who keeps posting this attack that says that it is a truly "despotic" system that will lead to two classes blah, blah, blah. Another FReeper counted more than 400 times he has presumably copied and pasted the same attack message - presumably on 400+ different threads.
Tariffs would encite our trading partners to retaliate, generate more WTO sanctions and would simply band-aid a tax system which, at its heart, disadvantages US producers vs their counterparts in other countries. Trying to fix what is wrong with this tax system with tariffs is like putting a new roof on a house with major structural termite damage.