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"Once the congress critters get THAT particular bit between their teeth it will be Katie-bar-the door."

Congress was the one that lowered the tariffs in the first place. I don't buy the argument that we can't fix anything because Congress will only increase and not decrease taxes.

And of course none if your pie-in-the-sky tariff schemes deal with all the compliance costs of locating a manufacturing business here in the USA. Its why your $1.00 to $1.10 increases is so laughable.

Only businesses that are competitive against the tariffed product will locate here. So it's not like we are going to raise the price of a product from $1.00 to $1.10 and then someone will relocate to the U.S. and charge $5.00. They are only going to relocate here if they can produce it <=$1.10.

You are all pretending that Obamcare and the EPA and OSHA and the Greenie movement and the Tort Lawyers won't have a huge impact on the issue.

Again, they will relocate here if they can produce competitively against the tariffed product.

You also pretend that the lobbyists won't riddle your tariff to the point it will be so complex all that will get done is it will make more lawyers rich as they constantly go to court over exemptions and rulings etc.

Again with the fatalistic, "we can't try to fix anything because you don't trust congress".

Now my question is are you really that naive or is it part of the unionista movement to point over there while ignoring whats over here?

Are you that much of a wuss, that you give up before you've even started to fight?

"Again, they will relocate here if they can produce competitively against the tariffed product. "

So you put a ten percent tariff on and then do nothing about the majority of compliance costs and then admit they will only locate here if they can make it cheaper but only considering the increased tariff costs NOT the fact that they now have waaaaay more compliance costs with things like Obamacare and such.

You do understand those costs won't magically disappear right?

So explain again what does the tariff do besides putting more money at the disposal of congress to buy more votes with?

"Are you that much of a wuss, that you give up before you've even started to fight?"

Excellent non answer answer.

Bottom line does your tariff eliminate the compliance costs of Obamacare, OSHA, EPA, TORT Lawyers, NIMBYs, Taxes and so on and so forth?

yes or no?