[1rudeboy]

So you're saying that a one to two percent tariff on selected imports will cause such conternation in Europe and Asia that it will cause such companies to collapse or go out of business.

No that's not what I'm saying. But I should add that your lack of concern about raising taxes (after all, that's what tariffs are) is troubling, and frankly, not very conservative.

[Nathan Zachary]

Here's an example of what your 1-2% tarif can do.

lets say I have an operation that takes a raw material which isn't available in the USA, I refine it and send it over to anther operation I have in the USA, where is is used in the final making of a finnished value added product. I then sell that product not only in the USA, but back to the country where I got the raw material from.

You want to put a tarif on that product? Then I will have to close the USA plant and make the whole product out of country. That's the impact even as much as a 1-2 % tax can have. No way am I going to give up 1-2 million is real money just because of protectionist policy, to protect what? From what? myself?

[cotton1706]

Have you read my other posts? I'm for eliminating the income tax and all corporate taxes. I want the 16th amendment repealed. I'm aware that tariffs are taxes. I'm also aware that when we started lowering tariffs, we started increasing income and other taxes. Tariffs are indirect taxes and are more in keeping with Liberty than direct taxes. I'm as conservative as they come, in the tradition of Hamilton, Lincoln, McKinley, Coolidge, and Reagan.