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To: central_va

A 20% import tax would never fly.


15 posted on 04/22/2016 6:45:10 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog
A 20% import tax would never fly.

It's that or financial collapse, a deep and wide depression followed by a Civil War II. You pick.

18 posted on 04/22/2016 6:47:24 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: smokingfrog

Why not ? It is what China, Germany, England, et al do to American imports. VATs are functionally equivalent to tariffs the way they use them.


116 posted on 04/22/2016 8:51:13 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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