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No the Free traders line of BS that I was replying too was this (try to keep up):

You do realize, don't you that the tax would still be passed on to you? Companies do NOT pay taxes. Every tax imposed by our government is passed directly on to the consumer. Say we get rid of Chinese merchandise and I have to pay $40 for a tshirt instead of $25. Does that raise my standard of living? Did protectionism help the average "citizen" of the Soviet Union?

[jec41]

Companies do NOT pay taxes.

you ever own a company? You should have told me I owned companies and I had to pay taxes even when times were tight and I sold at cost if I made anything I had to pay. In addition I was a importer and I know the shipping business very well. The hidden charges you don't know like a minimum of $750 to inspect a container. Now we have people screaming open every container even though it was checked before it was loaded and shipped.