[SamAdams76]

I agree that tariffs in place of income tax is the way to go but our government has grown too fat on the backs of our labor and has no desire to upset the apple cart.

Further, consumers have likewise gotten too used to cheap durable goods and have no desire to go back to the days when a television or a refrigerator was considered to be a major purchase. Now when a television stops working, they dump it in the trash and buy a better model for even cheaper than what they paid for the original one.

[central_va]

Further, consumers have likewise gotten too used to cheap durable goods and have no desire to go back to the days when a television or a refrigerator was considered to be a major purchase. Now when a television stops working, they dump it in the trash and buy a better model for even cheaper than what they paid for the original one.

Tariffs do not need to be draconian, a 10% duty isn't going to destroy the flat screen market but it might make one of our brave "Captains of Industry™" consider new plant in a R-T-W state instead of Hunan Province.