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To: Betaille

I'm not listening to him. I don't care what he thinks. And I'm well aware that tariffs increase prices and business costs. All taxes do that. We could lower (or elimiate completely) the corporate income tax at the same time. Don't tell me that consumers would bat an eye at paying one or two percent more. And if they do, so be it. Supply and demand will apply and we'll get less of that product. Why is it ok to have income taxes but not tariffs? It's a revenue source that has been ignored since this absolute free trade nonsense started.


36 posted on 02/18/2005 10:21:30 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

I don't really want more income taxes or tariffs. The inherent disadvantage of tariffs over an income tax is that tariffs will bring on retaliatory tariffs from our trading partners.


46 posted on 02/18/2005 10:26:13 AM PST by Betaille (Harry Potter is a Right-Winger)
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